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Debian being insanely stable (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I really like Debian, but for some reason my not-new-laptop didn't liked it. Issues with suspend, the WiFi and the NVME drive made me to nuke it last Wednesday and in its place I installed Fedora, which seems to play better with the hardware. At least I don't have problems with it in my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you're running Debian stable, your hardware was probably too new for the kernel. Unless they changed their development paradigm when I last ran it, stable is always 2-3 years behind mainline Linux software aside from security patches. It's one of the key reasons why it's so stable.

See the Don't Suffer from Shiny Stuff Syndrome on the official wiki.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, my laptop is a Dell from 2018-2019 with a 8th gen Core i5, so I don't think is too "new" 🤷🏻‍♂️.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's surprising. Dell should have good Linux driver support, seeing as they offer Ubuntu pre-installed in some markets.

Saying that, we have work issued Dell Precision mobile workstations and there are constantly hardware and driver issues under Windows, where you'd expect things to work just fine...

  • the internal microphone not working (handy for meetings!)
  • the 3.5mm combo jack not working (ah, great, no backup for when the internal microphone stops working)
  • the battery handshake failing, causing the machine to not charge, stay stuck in a low performance mode, and constantly pop up Windows notifications saying the battery is not genuine
  • the presence sensor locking the laptop while you're literally working it

Now I use a USB headset, disabled the presence sensor, and reboot the laptop repeatedly until the battery is detected as genuine

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Go to debian-testing. Your dayli updates are back too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Been there, done that. It wasn't a bad experience, but also not a good one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

A testing/sid hybrid is awesome on my hardware. These guides are pretty useful for keeping things sane: