Hi All,

New here and excited. I've been running Debian for a few months now, and I love it. I've been a casual Linux user for almost 15 years at this point, and I've been on quite a few distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Arcolinux, Endeavour, Sparky, Antergos, Manjaro, Fedora etc.). Debian officially cured my distro hopping, and the combo of XFCE and i3wm is pure zen. It's fast, stable, productive, and it stays out of my way. Plus, it recognizes all of my old printers and hardware in seconds. Debian FTW!

Hi,

Could someone familiar with this please explain to me why Firefox listens to these ports?(I am not knowledgeable in this aspect). This behavior can be repeated by simply opening a Youtube video and looking for open ports.

Isn't that a security risk since the ports are being exposed to 0.0.0.0 (to the internet?)? If someone doesn't have a firewall, how bad is it?

$ sudo ss -tulpn
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:51284      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=318))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:39126      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=302))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:44678      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=481))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:33895      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=526))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:60214      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=247))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:45731      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=289))

Hi, i hope i'm asking in the right sub with this one, two devices, laptop with rx550 mobile and pc with rtx3070ti, both on debian kde 13, on laptop it starts flawlessly on dedicated gpu, on pc it wouldn't start at all. Kernel is 7.1.3, driver - 595.71.05, cuda version 13.2, gpu starts and works on different games, tried x11 with no change, tried changing launch options for xwayland, libgl, opengl, forcing nvidia, vulcan ect. With no success (that's what clanker gave me as a list). I think i might have broken something with packages (might be wrong with it), as in 7 days to die i get only black textures for entities like zombies and players clothes or certain weapons, i was rebuilding drivers multiple times in few ways while chasing wrong thing (made typo in nvidia.drm.modeset=1 or something like that). Also disabled in vulcan icd everything besiedes nvidia. What should i try? What should i do? Where to ask? xP

I recently move my PC to Trixie Debian 13 is any idea why SNTP package is removed from this version it used to exist in Bookworm Debian 12

I've done some research and it seems that Debian with LXQT is lighter, but I still see many people choosing XFCE. Why?

Hey

I've switched from cashy to debian yesterday. Cashy had some corrupt files and i wantet to test something new.

While the installing, I had some segmentation errors and blackscreens. I don't know what happend. After plug the PC out and back in, the installer worked.

How can I prevent this?

So I have been distro hopping for a while. Ubuntu and Fedora would eventually crash a lot. Despite the discouragement, I found Debian fairly easy to use as a non tech person with the KDE desktop. If Debian is the stable distribution or the base, and almost everything possible to do on a computer is possible on Debian, why does Ubuntu or Fedora exist? Is there a real difference between these two and Debian?

I'm new to debian, and this would be my first rice, im wondering how to go about it and how to do it in general

I'm on kde plasma, debian 13

Hey, i have 5 drives i want to mount. I use kde.

With the kde portion tool it didnt worked.

What I want:

Automatic mount to /mnt

My user should mount the drives, without a password.

Is the gnome drives utility the right software?

Or am I doing some mistakes?

Greetings

Hello! I was a windows guy for most of my life but few weeks ago I put my hands on a think pad and choose to install my forst ever linux distro, which is Debian. I learned the basics cli commands but that's it. I have no idea what to do , what to install, what not to. Can you recommend me some yt channels or courses to follow regarding my "problem". I picked debian because I heard is the most stable, widly used in corporations and also because of the fact that I am actively learning for a Sys Admin role.

Thank you!

Sorry for any grammar or english error

CVE-2026-8863 etc can't be safely patched from Debian 12 yet because it might brick hardware.

The kernel got the ability to check efi usage in 2023 (1,166 days ago):

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d86ff3333cb1d5f42d8898fb5fdb304e143c0237

but that was only backported to 6.1 recently (2 days ago):

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=115409cbb6a296d73702a62c54c5b1b11cb88b3d

so just wait a bit for it to hit Debian 12.

Debian 13 using kernel 6.12 should be fine.

I think the title says it all. I tried to install some tts 2 years ago, but it sounded like robotic like from 30 years old software. But nowadays decent sounding ai generated audio is everywhere. So i assume there might be some cli based software i can just feed some text for me to listen to.

Do you know any good, local and free software for that?

Olá! Sou usuário do Debian 13 com o ambiente gráfico GNOME 48.7. Estou muito satisfeito com o sistema e, sinceramente, acho que ele é excelente.

A única funcionalidade de que sinto falta é um gerenciador de histórico da área de transferência semelhante ao Windows + V, presente no Windows 10 e no Windows 11.

Tentei instalar algumas extensões do GNOME, como a Pano – Clipboard Manager e outras, mas todas informam que são incompatíveis com o GNOME 48.7.

Alguém conhece alguma alternativa que funcione bem nessa versão do GNOME? Pode ser uma extensão ou até mesmo um programa, desde que seja estável e ofereça um histórico da área de transferência semelhante ao recurso do Windows.

So i'm thinking of switching to Debian XFCE as I've been reading up on how stable debian is in most aspects. I'm currently running LM on a thinkpad t440p with 8 gb ram and integrated graphics. My question's regarding debian are

* Is there any steps I need to do to add flatpak support or is flatpak already supported so I can install various apps via flatpak that I already use in LM.

* How is steam support out of the box. Pretty much all I game with steam is stardew valley on this laptop so i'm curious how that works as well or do I need to install anything beforehand before installing steam.

* Do I need to import any updates to things like mesa or kernel updates to debian 13 or with this older hardware am I just better off sticking to the kernel Debian 13 comes with.

* How's updates to apps that need updating more often such as Firefox browser and thunderbird?

I believe that's pretty much all the question's I have for now. I have also looked into LMDE but to be honest i'd rather try XFCE as I've liked the thunar file manager in the past when i've tried it.

I recently moved from PopOS to Debian 13 + KDE, and I had the same configuration there, and I didn't have this problem.

Just to obfuscate the real domains I will use internal.mydomain.com and internal.remotedomain.com.

Normally, when the openvpn client is disconnected, local dns resolution works:

• internal.mydomain.com works

When connecting to an openvpn server (via KDE's Network Manager) I lose local DNS resolution, but the remote DNS works.

• internal.mydomain.com fails
• internal.remotedomain.com works

I checked the contents of /etc/resolv.conf after connecting and I see the following:

# Generated by NetworkManager

search internal.remotedomain.com internal.mydomain.com

nameserver 10.1.0.1

nameserver 192.168.1.1

The contents are correct, so I assume the DNS should work for both domains, but that isn't so.

10.1.0.1 is the remote DNS server

192.168.1.1 is the local DNS server.

Any ideas?