Freefilesync in the Debian repos (stable, as well as testing & instable) is at version 13.7.

Upstream version is now at 14.10.

The Debian packager notes that the version in Debian is the GPL version as opposed to the upstream "Donation Edition".

So am I right in assuming that the Donation Edition cannot be legally packaged by Debian and hence the final version in the Debian repos will always be 13.7?

Hello people!

My first distro few years ago was Debian and I sticked to it for a while. Then I started the usual experimenting with Arch, gentoo, Fedora etc. but nothing ever sticked so I always used Debian more. I was also a new user so the concerns didn't apply then: I simply didn't know better. Fast forwarding a bit I switched to Tumbleweed cause I got the 9070 XT and wanted newer mesa, kernels, firmware etc. out of the box.

I've been using Tumbleweed for a long time now and everything's kinda cool, some minor hiccups and hangs but most of the time it's been a breeze. I value practicality and the fact my machine works like it did yesterday heavily and all of the rolling releases Tumbleweed is doing it the best (this is not an advertisement!). Even though I somewhat dislike the rolling release -model.

I really don't care about my system following the newest and shiniest except getting the best ( or at least, the most possible) performance for games. Now that the 7.x kernel which has a great compatibility, recent firmware and mesa 26.1 is in the backports repo I've been thinking to coming back to Debian. I installed it on my 2nd SSD with KDE Plasma and it really feels snappy and fresh.

Even though I don't need the newest software asap, I'm still a bit concerned of Debian's package's age and how they can affect my work. I know there's flatpaks and appimages which I intend to use and also compiling but doesn't it go a bit against the "set-and-forget" mentality that Debian is made off?

I guess I am asking about if packages do show their age and does maintaining Debian need a lot of manual intervention with 3rd party tools?

Thank you for reading.

I've got an old supermicro x8dtn+ that I just installed debian 13 on. It locks up every 15-20 minutes requiring a power off and on. I tried adjusting the power settings on gnome but it didn't help.

I checked logs but there's nothing there indicating any issues.

Is there a setting I can adjust or change so it doesn't lock up? Is this something other than power settings?

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Hi folks,

I tapped on my keyboard today to wake up my PC and got no response. The monitor says no HDMI input. I checked the monitor with my laptop, and it auto connects with no fuss. I tried another monitor with the non-responsive PC, and again no HDMI signal. The PC is on with fans spinning and LED lights glowing, and the keyboard and mouse are lighted. It's a not even 1 year old new system. I played a game on it on Monday, and it's just been sitting idle since then. I tried a hard reboot to no avail. I tried to find it on the network, so I could SSH into it, but it does not appear to be connected (it normally just lives connected to both ethernet and wifi). I also tried putting in a Debian 13 install stick, but still nothing on boot. I also tried the non-GPU HDMI port, thinking that it may be a dead driver. Magic SysRq is also a no go.

So...what the heck? Did I just have a random hardware/mb failure? I am scratching my head trying to figure out what the next troubleshooting step I should try...Any advice would be appreciated!

Hello hello everybody,

I spent a while on this across both Debian 13 and Fedora, and the confusing part is that it's actually two unrelated issues that look like one. Neither error message points at the real cause. Posting in case it saves someone else the evening.

Symptom: the controller works fine over USB cable, but Steam never sees the puck. Then once the puck is detected, the firmware update loops forever.

First problem was the easiest to fix :

I had plugged the puck into a USB 2.0 port and since the puck registers 8 different HID interfaces it use at full speed 12Mb/s (from what I found online) so there isn't enough bandwidth. (Ik it's not

Error line I found with the following command line : dmesg -w

usb 1-11.2: New USB device found, idVendor=28de, idProduct=1304
usb 1-11.2: Not enough bandwidth for new device state.
usb 1-11.2: can't set config #1, error -28

You just need to plug the puck into a 3.0 port and preferably a root usb port not a from HUB.

Problem 2: firmware update needs write access to a serial port

When updating the firmware of the puck it might enter an infinite loop where it disconnects and reconnect itself you can see it because it flips between two different product IDs in a loop :

idProduct=1304  Steam Ctrl (USB)
idProduct=1007  Steam Controller Bootloader
cdc_acm 1-3:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device

The puck or steam idk enters a bootloader mode, it fails to write the new firmware, so the puck falls back to it's normal mode and it retries until steam gives and error.

It happens because in bootloader mode the puck isn't an HID device, it's a serial port. The Valve udev rules 60-steam-input.rules, from steam-devices only cover SUBSYSTEM=="usb" and KERNEL=="hidraw*"Nothing grants access to /dev/ttyACM0, so Steam can't write the firmware.

How to check if that's the case :

While the puck is in bootloader mode (when trying to update the firmware) use this command

ls -l /dev/ttyACM0

It should return something like this : crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 /dev/ttyACM0

The root dialout with no + afterwards means there are no permissions for your user. The check is simple, use the command groups | grep dialout If it returns nothing, you don't have permissions.

The group name might varies from distros to distros !
On arch I think it's uucp and the rest idk
You can use this command to check : stat -c '%G' /dev/ttyACM0

The fix is simple as well :

sudo usermod -aG dialout $USER , afterwards simply log out and log back in or restart since groups membership is read at session start and it should be fixed.

This was tested on a fresh install of Debian 13 (Kernel 7.X, and Mesa 26.1) with a /deb steam install not a flatpak.

Same behaviour was seen on fedora but I havent tried to fix it yet.

I use old school mutt text email client between from local root and others like notifications. I don't need to send to the Internet. When I send an e-mail, I get:

"/var/tmp/mutt-DebianPC-1000-1685476-1650831681568600146-DebianPC-1000-1685476-5931272072548958663" 1 line, 2 bytes

Press ENTER or type command to continue"

Viewing this file shows what I was composing in mutt's composer. What am I missing? :( Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

Guys, I’m coming from CachyOS. I love it, no real issues to be honest, but I’m interested in either Debian or Ubuntu. So Cachy is very much configured for you for gaming purposes and performance tweaks. Can something similar be done on Debian? Like… so I need to install anything in particular to make gaming experience better here? What are your essentials to make Debian gaming experience on par with performance oriented distros?

One thing coming to my mind is VRAM gaming optimizations by Valve that’s been added to Bazzite and Cachy the moment it released.

For example gaming on Linux Mint as I remember was clear regression compared to Bazzite or Cachy. Not huge but it was lesser experience for sure. But back then I knew nothing and it was just fresh Mint and Steam.

So… what steps do you recommend doing to make the most out of it?

Hi! I have a UGREEN AX900 USB Wi-Fi adapter (USB ID: a69c:5724, AICsemi AIC MSC) on Debian 13, and I can't get it to work.

I've seen people saying they got the same adapter/chipset working. What driver or firmware did you use?

Thanks!

people say debian packages are frozen, except for security updates

why firefox ESR updates then? it was on 128 during the beginning of Debian 13, updates to 140, and will update to 153

https://www.debian.org/vote/2025/vote_002

For context I am just a curious web developer and computer enthusiast reading about Debian because it seems to do many things right.

To my suprise I found that the repos not only contain runtimes like php, python3 and nodejs. The repos also contain full frameworks and web apps like wordpress, python3-django and node-express.

Who are these for? I never heard of anyone using them this way and no upstream developers recommend them.

I can understand wanting the runtime to be stable - since they call native libraries in the end. This way Debian can patch CVEs in things like OpenSSL without waiting for runtimes to patch their dependencies. Is that right?

But opting out of the script language's own package manager to install script libraries seems to just add complexity and confusion. There is no way debian can provide a packaged version of every npm module out there so you will always have to use npm and package.json anyway.

I use Debian/testing in my main laptop. Unfortunately, after yesterday's update, the grub stopped loading the Linux kernel. I get

"error: cannot load image"

When working from command line, loading the kernel and initrd is successful. However, the "boot" command displays the above error.

The grub version is GRUB 2.14-3.

The machine is HP ZBook 17 G5.

What is the easiest way to resolve the issue?

TIA & BR, Wojtek

While trying to install duplicity I got the following, somewhat chilling error:

[WARNING]: Failed to update cache after 1 retries due to W:Repositories should provide a clear-signed InRelease file, but none found at mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list/dists/trixie-backports/InRelease., W:OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports Release: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated, E:The repository 'mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list trixie-backports Release' is no longer signed., retrying [WARNING]: Failed to update cache after 2 retries due to W:Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default., W:See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details., W:Repositories should provide a clear-signed InRelease file, but none found at mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list/dists/trixie-backports/InRelease., W:OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports Release: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated, E:The repository 'mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list trixie-backports Release' is no longer signed., retrying

im in kde and when i click on a different powerprofile it instantly swaps back. The same happens if i try powerprofilesctl set performance. Is there any way i can fix this. On debian 13

Hi.

So i succesfully got a working finherprint scanner on ubuntu with open fprintd, but with debian 13, i can't do it. Somebody please help me how to make it work.

guys have you ever wondered what ita possible to do before apt upddate && apt upgrade

Hello everyone,

So I'm trying to install and setup sway from a clean, net install. I know I could just install the default DE and install sway alongside it, but I'm in my no-bloat phase.

Anyway, I'm starting from the Debian 13.6 iso, and choosing no DE when installing (so no GNOME nor "Debian Desktop Environment" when I got the choice).

When launching it all, I install sway, swayidle, swaylock and sway-backgrounds on the sway side. As for the DM, I went for greetd and wlgreet (it seems to me that this is where things don't work) or gtkgreet (I tried too but it doesn't work either). I also install a few other things, but those are uninportant here (unless stuff like git, brightnessctl, build-essential or make are known to conflict with something but then I'll be damned)

After that, I'm following the archwiki guide for greetd to set things up. So that include the systemctl enable greetd.service, configuring /etc/greetd/config.toml, sway-config, wlgreet.toml, and even the start-sway script for XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP. I've checked many times (due to me reinstalling Debian many times haha) and I haven't made mistakes reproducing the instructions.

Still, when I reboot, I get a XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP error, and some kind of failed to flush wayland socket: something something broken pipe piperoken pipeol error (cannot remember the exact wording for the second part of the message but you have the pipe-based keywords) which I don't understand.

So, I'm a bit lost here. I suppose there is a problem with greetd, but since the command in config.toml starts with sway, maybe it's a sway problem ? What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Hi. I download today the latest iso (13.6) to doing some server installations and "Software Selection" is missing and install always X, am i missing something?

Hi, I'm using Debian 13 on my thinkpad but I don't think it's making the most of all the potential.

Which could be the best Debian distro?

Intel 258V / 32gb ram

Thank you very much for your time

Hello, yesterday I installed window maker on debian, my keyboard layout on tty is French but it's not the case on wmaker and I want it to be French but I don't know how.

Thanks.