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Debian used to be so good. What happened!? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do they even need busybox if the base install already comes with full gnu coreutils? I remember Debian as the distro that Just Wroks(TM), when did it all go so wrong? Is anyone else here having similar issues, or am I doing something wrong?

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[-] ninth_plane@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I'm considering moving to Debian Stable plus Flathub for graphical desktop packages like Firefox, it works well on the Steam Deck. SteamOS also provides Distrobox which helps in some cases.

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[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

when i see a debian user i see a future fedora user

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[-] MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I don't have issues yet on stable 12.5 but I plan to switch to nixos eventually.

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago

Just use the Mozilla .deb

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Sounds like you need to be using slackware.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I can't remember the last time I installed Debian and it failed. I last installed it a month ago. Gnome takes some tweaking for me. Mostly to get that stock Ubuntu feel. Nothing extension manager can't do.

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