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submitted 6 months ago by mariah@feddit.rocks to c/linux@lemmy.ml

It installs but when i try to boot it wont. When i select the hdd in the boot menu it does nothing. Ubuntu server and fedora works but i woud like debian

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[-] yala@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago

but i woud like debian

Could you elaborate on this? I'm just curious.

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

While I'm not op, debian offers increased stability over ubuntu and fedora, and that might be enough to make someone want debian

[-] yala@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you for answering! 'Stability' as in "less inclined to change" does indeed better apply to the standard Debian installation than to either of Fedora or Ubuntu. However, Fedora derivatives like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux offer similar stability and so does Ubuntu LTS. So, while it does potentially explain why OP may have preferred Debian, it does not (IMO) by itself make a strong case.

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

From my personal experience, ubuntu (lts or not), has a tendency of nuking itself randomly. It's happened more than one time to me, to shit off my PC, eat something, return to a broken installation that doesn't boot. And I've got plenty of experience with fedora just not doing things, like mtp, vulkan on flatpaks, I've had it crash on login (on x11), and had gnome apps constantly crashing (on wayland). Currently, I'm using debian, and I've never had any issues with it, other than outdated packages, which is relatively minor

[-] yala@discuss.online 5 points 6 months ago

Thank you for sharing your experiences! While my personal experiences with these distros don't quite match yours, I do appreciate your openness in this regard.

Just to be clear, it's not my intent to persuade OP to a specific distro of my liking. Rather, I was interested to know why they would rather troubleshoot their booting issues on Debian instead of returning to distros that have shown to work.

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 2 points 6 months ago

I wanna selfhost invidious. It installed fine on debian whereas on ubuntu make cant find shards even though crystal is installed. I keep getting squashfs errors that stops network access

[-] yala@discuss.online 1 points 6 months ago

How did you install it on Debian if you didn't get beyond boot? Or is this on another system?

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 2 points 6 months ago

Another system but i figured it out

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