Your changes can’t hurt me!
The Debian 6.12 kernel trying to find modules for your fancy new hardware:
Just last week I updated the kernel in my arch laptop and now the touchpad doesn’t work anymore
Luckily the solution was just
pacman -S linux-ltsJoin the Debian Trixie upgrade fun today :) https://micronews.debian.org/
“bookworm” is now oldstable and “bullseye” is oldoldstable.
So “bullseye” got promoted from outdated to antique?
Using a Debian is like being able to stay in bed in the morning. Heck, someone might even come by and change the sheets while you’re in REM and you’ll hardly even notice.
Everyone else is up and running about like headless chickens fighting dependency wars and system vulnerabilities and cutting themselves on that bleeding edge and you’re hugging xteddy in blissful slumber.
Speaking of which, has he been ported to Wayland?
I have been using Gentoo for over three years and I feel exactly the same.
Updating the system after half a year when I didn’t have time to do it? Absolutely painless, everything works.
And I get to quickly remove parts of software due to USE flags.
Also, no releases, I just update, no changing sources, no full-upgrade… just the same command every time.
There are binay packages for folks who don’t want to compile locally.
Gentoo is the way.
Gentoo is awesome! But I hope you update at least your browser more often than that?
I didn’t even have time to use the browser…
I understand, it can take quite some time to compile ;)
Time to download new Plasma bugs! I just hope it will decrease crashing frequency to once per week with Wayland backend, with Bookworm it was once per day, which is not fun if you need to keep several windows open.
I had 0 crashes with plasma 5.27 on debian 12 and I used it for 1.5 years, I have been using unstable for 6 months with plasma and only 3 crashes of which plasma mamaged to recover gracefully on all of them, I genuinely dont know how people get Plasma to crash so much more often than I, and I have only used the wayland session
true but only if you dont use the latest hardware. IMO, if you already have a computer then Debian is 100% crash proof, minus user errors. Using the latest computer spec on Debian is just a nightmare.
The correct way with a new computer with recent hardware is to install Debian Testing to get a recent kernel, firmware and mesa and stuff, but put the code name of the next release into your apt config instead of “testing”. So then when the next version is released, you can just stay on that, now stable, version.
Trixie just got released today though, so for the time being you can probably get away with using that.
Wouldn’t it be better to use backports? Testing doesn’t always get security updates if a package is problematic and can’t migrate from sid for a while.
