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What is the best way to back up as much as possible of Debian 12 on my laptop to a server that has SSH available? I am currently backing up my users /home/ folder, but I would like to be able to nuke and restore the system from a backup....

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I’m using Debian 12 with Gnome on my Surface Go 2, and while the multitouch gestures are great, when I use them I also click on anything where I start a 3 finger gesture. I like my panel hidden except in the Dash overview, but I disabled this so I don’t have to use gestures. When I do use them I have to use them on an empty...

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Does anyone know when the new KDE plasma 6 is expected to be on unstable?

I usually switch to testing about 1 year after the release of stable. We’re about the 9 month mark and I’m getting anxious. Any major issues running testing? This is for my main desktop.

I’ve heard that Wayland works a lot better now on Nvidia GPUs, so I wanted to give it a try. I’ve heard that GNOME wants to focus on Wayland, and that it is selected by default. BUT… I can’t find it. When checking the server in the terminal, it says X11. And when on the login screen, I can choose between GNOME and GNOME...

I am supposing this will not work - simply using dd to copy the booted disk /dev/sda for example to a file on an external hard drive. This would not be a good back as too many system file would be missed. right?

Updating to kernel 6.1.0-18 with Nvidia driver installed, seams broken?...

New debian user here. I’m using sway and have a script in my waybar config to look for upgrades and indicate if any are available. However, it typically doesn’t find anything because I first need to run a sudo apt update first....

I have a small server in my closet which is running 4 Debian 12 virtual machines under kvm/libvirt. The virtual machines have been running fine for months. They have unattended-upgrades enabled, and I generally leave them alone. I only reboot them periodically, so that the latest kernel upgrades get applied....

If you are on the stable kernel and use ext4, do not upgrade to linux kernel package 6.1.64-1...

I have suddenly found that /usr/games has disappeared off my path. Not only that but my normal otherwise but sudo enabled user seems to have a superuser’s path?...

Hi, I am building the Linux kernel, with the following make command to enable multi core compilation: make -j. This ends up freezing the system and eventually some applications get killed (I am using KDE). If I pass an argument to -j, then system compiles normally. However, full multi-core compilation is enabled when no argument...

I installed Bookworm, Docker and Frigate (in docker) on an older i5 Dell with a Coral TPU (USB) and an old GeForce 6600 GPU, the TPU and GPU are for use with Frigate frame processing and video conversion. It was working well for months and then I upset the apple cart by adding whisper and Piper in the docker for my Home...

Debian 12 (Bookworm) My Wi-Fi has just started randomly dropping the connection and re-connecting. It seems to connect and pass data normally until it decides to drop again....

I have an annoying problem on my server and google has been of no help. I have two drives mirrored for the OS through mdadm, and I recently replaced them with larger versions through the normal process of replacing one at a time and letting the new drive re-sync, then growing the raids in place. Everything is working as...

I’ve been fighting an install of the latest Gnome iso. Got a working install now, but the CPU is always chugging, even at idle on the desktop. I know that previously this machine was buttery smooth. But now my cursor can’t even smoothly move across the screen....

I’ve been unsuccessful in getting a properly working system today, installing from a freshly downloaded LiveGnome.iso from the Debian page....

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I have been struggling with this for over a month and still keep running into a brick wall. I am building a new firewall which has six network interfaces, and want to rename them to a known order (wan[0-1], and eth[0-3]). Since Bullseye has stopped honoring udev rules, I have created link files under /etc/systemd/network/ for...

I want to have two DEs: Xfce & KDE. The Xfce I want to use as a dark theme, because it has the darkest theme I’ve found, which I couldn’t find anything equal on KDE. However in KDE I have Latte, and when I initialize Xfce, Latte does as well, breaking the workflow of the interface....

Debian turns 30 today!

With contributions in that room and various ‘Jitsi Meet’ events from Kochi....