Once in a while I check the installed packages for a possible dependency on GTK and when I find a program which has one, I look for an alternative to have one dependency less.

The last time I replaced simple-scan with skanlite and it is a much much better scanning program and with a more pleasant ui on top.

Ah, “Remarkable” is a brand, never heard of them and never would have guessed as the “R” is uppercase at the start of a sentence

Yup. Have been running an FTP server on my Kobo Touch over its WiFi. Kinda neat.

This was terrifying to read 😨

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The great thing about Debian is; it has a gear-shifter.

Whether stable or sid, it’s still debian but you can go from “rock solid, reliable” to “most recent with several updates per day” in the same ecosystem and just by changing the repositories, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, done.

Alpine’s great for builder images, though

Try Debian sid (unstable), from my experience it’s actually more stable than testing because it gets updates even more often.

And ditch Gnome. There is no way to be happy with it as it craps out very often and is a maintenance burden for maintainers, therefore the quality differs so much.

Or just use Debian sid, which effectively is Debian in a rolling variant. 🚀

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

I use Sidebery and am content with it so far.

Like I said it’s a cheap solution for a single user system. Ofc tmpfs would be better but has to be done for every user again

Wow, I’ve never seen something like this.

Is it" allowed"? I mean, there are quotas for user homes.

Because of excessive RAM I symlink ~/.cache to /tmp. Additionally installing zramswap helps for this scenario.

Benefits are faster access, automatc purging between reboots and no wear to the NMVe drive.

Yes, this is a single user scenario.

Start with Debian stable (rock solid, well integrated packaging).

When you feel comfortable and have achieved some experience, switch to Debian sid (rolling release, updates very often, be a bit cautious).

Challenge time.

The chmod you can still see

--no-preserve-root

To change all the directories to 755 (drwxr-xr-x):

find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

To change all the files to 644 (-rw-r--r--):

find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

well, 666 would ‘-_-’

sudo chmod -R 777 /

Edit: don’t do this, it will allow everyone and everything to read and modify all files of all mounted filesystems, this includes your personal files, system wide passwords, config files, everything and might break the whole system as not all files are meant to have these permissions, e.g. mapped hardware settings or your ssh key store.

sudo comes with immense power, do not, under any circumstances, enter commands you found on the internet without an intense look about what they do and what their implications could be. Never sudo or doas, etc., without a strong and valid reason.