the default is pipewire now so you may need to install the alsa pipewire module

there is a cult of Debian? where do I sign up?

good thing that command won’t do anything anymore

honestly the biggest problem with the media is. Linux represents the very thing corporate culture in those media empires just can’t fathom. the idea of cooperation for the greater good that Linux represents and not being 100% profit motivated. They just don’t get it and worse they see it as a threat. Microsoft can be a competitor to them but the idea of open source is a competitor to the whole system and that is a far greater threat to the people on top.

honestly I wished the arch wiki turned into a distro agnostic wiki. i have been using debian for decades and use arch wiki all the time but it would be nice to have a one stop shop for linux documentation. the Wikipedia of Linux run as a coalition.

you don’t and will never will. I would recommend reading a lecture by Ken Thompson the co-creator of Unix for more details on this https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

if you have zram enabled why do you have a swap partion on your ssd at all?

How much ram do you have?

I will say that your statement that no one cares about what their OS is. it kind of makes the point. If no one cares. Why would you use a nonfree OS? Other than the FUD and that it’s just what was used before.

hmm okay thanks I will check those out maybe that is the missing piece.

so paru is the equivalent to apt-build install

but unlike Debian the Repo is outside the distribution.

i think I’m getting it thank you while I have no interest in leaving debian but this will be fun in distrobox.

but can you search the AUR from the CLI or or do you still need to git clone then pacmac build with the package buildID?

yeah I get dependency resolution from apt build-dep in Debian but like what commands do you use to build a package with the AUR. From what I read it’s

search the AUR website git clone tar xf pag.tar makepkg -csi packagename

am I missing something or is there an easier way that I am just not seeing?

i promise I’m not trolling I really want to learn.

ah good point even then it still has to be set up. so the search for it has to take place regardless be it in software center or activities search.

I use timeshift on all my debian installs am I missing something in your comment?

I have to say I dont get the AUR I have been using Debian for the past 20 years and have tried Arch based out on my steam deck and in Distrobox on my sid gaming PC and I just don’t get it.

I hear all these great things about the AUR but when I tried it. It didn’t seem to be that much easier than building a Deb pkg or doing a make install from source. the way I hear people talk about it I figured it was just like installing from a source Repo on Debian.

please note I’m not saying anything bad about Arch I personally love the arch wiki it’s great to even fix things in Debian. I just personally don’t get it. maybe I’m not using it right or distobox does not give me the full experience. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

honestly doing a minimal install no DE just base utilities and a shell and apt is the way to go. Just install the packages you want and go from there. I also recommend Sid for that arch feel but be sure to install apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs to help with upgrades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRISC they kind of have

couldn’t agree more on a long enough timeline we win.

ah the mainframe strategy

I run AMD now but ran Nvidia for years (RIP Evga). I had no issues with ether DE, other than the occasional update breaking things (only an issue with Sid) but that’s what you use timeshift to rollback for when something breaks and apt-listbugs to be aware of issues before you update.

Note you can swap between X11 and Wayland on KDE by just changing the session on login.

I use KDE but that is out of habit and preference I have used them all and they all have pros and cons. Debian doesn’t customize them at all so there is no Debian specific DE for stable or sid.

It’s all about how they make you feel using them. also the nice thing is you can use gnome apps on kde and kde apps on gnome so unless you super care about theme there is no down side.

Like my favorite scanner app is Document Scanner for gnome and when I’m on gnome my favorite text editor is Kate. Yeah you’re doubling your needed disk space for libraries but disks space is cheap and your going to use up more space with flatpaks anyway.