Debian 10 Buster | The First 30 Days | 1 Year Challenge

42 thoughts on “Debian 10 Buster | The First 30 Days | 1 Year Challenge”

1. Doesn't sound THAT stable!

2. I'm also looking forward to testing out MX Linux 19 when that comes out (I've heard a lot of good things about MX Linux recently), which should have Debian 10 and Xfce 1.14.

3. Java wasn't playing nice for me for some reason on 10, so for now I went back to a 9 full image backup – easy to do on a VM server. Will mess around with it some more later when I have more time.

4. Debian 10 ist released NOW. Do not run SID.

5. My problem with Debian is that the packages are REALLY OLD!!!! I don't mind to not have the latest packages but Debian packages may even be more than 1 year old!!!

6. Debian 10 Buster is not stable. I tryed to use it. It fell many times…

7. Was using Debian for years because I thought that Debian was the golden standard of a stable system. At least, that's what everyone was saying. But the meaning of stable in Debian just means that API's won't change together with major version bumps of packages. Having a frozen system is nice and predictable, but not by definition stable in terms of user experience. Many bugs and improvements can be found upstream. If you don't get that, then some things remain half broken or will never work. Of course you can then mix stuff from the testing repository or use PPA's. But once you have to go down that road, it basically means you should switch to a different distro.

   Been using Fedora now for 4 years. I never have to worry about problems anymore, if there are problems, then it's fixed around the time when upstream fixes it. Which I virtually never have to wait for since stuff just works. GNOME could improve in some areas. But since GNOME is mostly a RedHat project and they seem to manage to improve it with every release, I'm not worried.

8. Maybe you can do some tweaking tutorial like: https://medium.com/@vishnu_mad/using-i3-window-manager-with-kde-plasma-c2ac70594d8
   😁

9. I just used Debian Buster newly advertised installer ( RC ) and installed my very first copy of Debian. Buster is now my only OS, on an SSD on a Intel i5-3470 with DDR3 memory. So far so good.
   The installer gave me a message that it chose to not install 4 pieces of firmware, so I am going to have to go back and take a look at those items.

   The new installer gave me a choice of DE, and I went with Plasma, which is 5.14.5

   No more aptitude or synaptic ? Apper is the thing now. Right ??

   The Buster repository seems to have everything in it that I need. My Brother 720-D scanner, and Brother HL-L3270CDW color laser-printer are working. Keyboard, trackball, sound, ethernet, YouTube, monitor, Firefox all worked out of the box with no adjustments needed.

   I installed ffmpeg, dxvk, vlc, inkscape, scribus, Aisleriot Solitaire, Gnome Mahjonng.

10. Hey Chris,
    I'm installing Debian as a dual boot for the first time. I used linux in university so I know to handle the CLI. I'm installing Debian Stretch (stable) as a start until I feel confident going to newer cutting edge upgrades. At first I think I'll create one large partition for Debian and one for swap as a start.

    Where would you suggest new user to continue afterwards? The Debian reference is quite boring frankly (And I don't mind reading..). How to properly manage the system, get graphic card drivers from NVidia for instance, how to properly create backups and things of these sort.
    
    BTW I think this can be a great video.

    Thank you for your videos, you made me make a try.
    
    Rami

11. Just a quick shout out about Kdenlive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym1brc2OcYQ
    *Olive* is starting to be a great alternative, renders so much faster and is more stable than Kdenlive, even in Alfa stage! You will not regret to give it a go 🙂

12. KDENlive has a web page that walks you through the process of dealing with bugs https://kdenlive.org/en/bug-reports/ So I think it is worth giving what they say to do a shot before you kick anything or anyone to the curb.

13. kdenlive has had a rep for playing best with KDE. No idea how true that is. Cinelerra-GG looks promising…

14. This video editor looks promising if you are interested https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/features/

15. The greatest hurdle between me and switching to Linux is usability. Installing packages and comparing

16. 'moved to another box" … means "moved to another folder"?
    I'M running ten Linux and four We indows systems on my Dell XPS-15 notebook computer. The only "box" we notebook users have are other partitions, and-or remote drives (USB & flash sticks).

17. Not to reassuring, spending so much time restoring, Kdenlive being a bitch, crashing is not stability. It can't handle the new kernel and problems with gaming. Sounds like a headache to me. Some people enjoy it, hard to be productive with time wasted. Sorry to be so negative! Love your videos!

18. Congratulation you have a Gaming Server. LOL

    I would like to have a petition for a video.
    1) Play some game at the same time you are running apt-get dist-upgrade on a really big update. (kernel update)
    2) do a reboot and check the time It takes to reboot after a big update from power on to fully ready to play games. (power down + boot + login + open steam times)
    3) continue gaming a little big while commenting how disruptive is the update process.

19. Congratulations!😃

20. Chris, always set up a different partition for /home and for /, then all your settings stay intact even if you have to reinstall the whole system.

21. I’m still sticking with Fedora ;). I tried to install Debian on my laptop but nope didn’t work. It does work just I have extra loops to do.

22. Try Shotcut, I’ve had nothing but good luck with it and while it works differently than Kdenlive, though they both use MLT and FFMPEG, it is fairly feature rich.

    Alternatively, even though it is in Alpha, Tux Designer seems to suggest Olive Video Editor is fairly stable too and it looks like it is continuing to get increasingly feature rich.

23. following your example, I went from Mint to Debian Buster. I must say I am very happy with it ! Thank you 🙂 Stable and up-to-date !

24. Got a suggestion for you on Kdenlive, try using the flatpak version they are often ahead of the other repositories as far staying on the latest version, maybe that might fix your problem. I'm getting ready to to upgrade to kernel 5 when Ubuntu 19.04 drops, I've been running the beta in a virtual machine and it seems pretty stable, but who knows what is going to happen there. But at least you leaned an important lesson don't use root while your high on cough syrup LOL

25. I did think that Buster was the unstable, testing version of Debian.

26. KDENlive is also available as a flatpak. Don't use it myself, but most if not all of my flatpaked programs work with less headaches on my side. (Steam excluded 😉

27. Try Olive video editor, very stable and really nice to use

28. 5.0 has additional patches for Spectre/Meltdown. Have you considered disabling those patches (even in 4.20) ? Disabling them boosts up the performance by ~20%

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noibrs noibpb spectre_v2=off spec_store_bypass_disable=prctl spec_store_bypass_disable=off nospectre_v1"

29. Perhaps Kdenlive from Flathub might be OK?

30. Have you tried using davinci resolve instead of kden live? It was really stable on windows and I think it's about just as stable on linux too.

31. Time flies when you're tinkering with Linux 😀

32. Give davinci resolve a shot it should work really well on Debian

33. 1. KDENlive runs most stable on KDE, allegedly.
    2. Davinci Resolve!

34. Batman uses Debian?

35. I've not tried it yet, but unfa loves it. Accelerated graphics and all.

    http://www.olivevideoeditor.org

    https://youtu.be/ym1brc2OcYQ

36. You should keep a Deja Dup instance running to restore the home folder.
    Kdenlive is very unstable on Debian sometimes. You may need to download an older edition.

37. Debian Is the shit.
    Although I've been having problems with libre office randomly crashing, and when I try to restart it, the gnome session crashes as well.

38. use the kdenlive appimages, they are much more stable.

39. Chris is the BATMAN!

40. have you tried to build kdenlive from source?

41. Hey there. Great videos man

    Should I use Debian or Manjaro on my work laptop which I do Writing and reports and lite design things on? I'd like to hear your opinion

    Keep it up

42. First!

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