[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The main “instability” I’ve found with testing or sid is just that because new packages are added quickly, sometimes you’ll have dependency clashes.

Pretty much every time the package manager will take care of keeping things sane and not upgrading a package that will cause any incompatibility.

The main issue is if at some point you decide to install something that has conflicting dependencies with something you already have installed. Those are usually solvable with a little aptitude-fu as long as there are versions available to sort things out neatly.

A better first step to newer packages is probably stable with backports though.

https://backports.debian.org/

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Not much use to go Ubuntu or Mint, unless you have specific issues with Debian that don’t happen with those. Even then, it may be one apt install away from a fix.

If you want to try out BSD, power to you. I wouldn’t experiment on a backup computer though, unless by backup you just mean you want to have the spare hardware and will format it with Debian if you ever need to make it your main computer anyway.

Otherwise, just run Debian!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I fairly constantly need to disable Bluetooth on my iPad so they work on my phone.

If you put the headphones in pairing mode, you can just re-pair with the phone without having to touch the iPad.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Stability is no longer an advantage when you are cherry picking from Sid lol.

This makes no sense. When 95% of the system is based on Debian stable, you get pretty much full stability of the base OS. All you need to pull in from the other releases is Mesa and related packages.

Perhaps the kernel as well, but I suspect they’re compiling their own with relevant parameters and features for the SD anyway, so not even that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Why would they manually package them? Just grab the packages you need from testing or sid. This way you keep the solid Debian stable base OS and still bring in the latest and greatest of the things that matter for gaming.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Not defending anyone here, but a paedophile is someone who’s sexually attracted to prepubescent children. I believe these days it’s extended to the early stages of puberty as well.

Most girls are well over that phase at age 14.

A 23 year-old having sex with a 14 year old may be morally and legally wrong depending on culture and jurisdiction, but the cases where it’s actual paedophilia are likely a small minority.

Again, I’m not defending anyone, but calling every person who’s attracted to minors a paedophile only serves to diminish the effect of the actual ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I’ve been using a btrfs partition for my games shared volume. Just install winbtrfs on Windows.

I wouldn’t recommend ExFAT for anything other than a thumb drive used to exchange files between computers. It lacks many features of modern file systems which makes files on it a lot more susceptible to corruption.

https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I tried installing Bazzite on a couple different computers. It just didn’t work. The Bazzite Portal, which is supposed to come up in first boot, never did. I must have installed it 5 or 6 times.

Clicking on it in the menu did nothing. Running from the CLI makes it come up but one time it just hung on the second or third step with no option to recover (and then wouldn’t run again), and another time it ran through but failed to produce a usable system in any way (again, with no option to recover).

I like the idea but I don’t have infinite time to fiddle with it so now I’m running Ubuntu with auto-login to the gaming user account which starts Steam Big Picture automatically.

It’s as close to a console experience as I can get.

c10l

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