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  • I’m talking about third party software, not what’s in the repository.
    It’s usually available as .deb or .rpm and nothing else.
    On Arch someone may or may not have converted it and put it in the AUR, and it may or may not be maintained.

    Besides, I run Sid, which isn’t point release nor outdated.


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    One of our customers previously had an IT provider who set up an all-linux infrastructure.
    He told us it almost brought his business down, since he was unable to find employees.
    Every time he mentioned that they’d have to work with a Linux PC (as a secretary or bookkeeper) they backed out.




  • yes I know. (Besides, Debian’s official documentation isn’t the wiki, but the Debian handbook).
    The point is, on Debian you don’t need the wiki. Things that are a long manual process on Arch (best example: Nextcloud) are already preconfigured or there’s a ready made solution available.


  • Oh yeah, I always use the graphical expert installer. If the normal installer defaults to 1GB of swap without telling you, that’s pretty bad.
    1GB swap is pointless IMO. Either make the swap space twice your RAM or don’t bother.

    Still don’t know how that could fuck up drivers though. On a normal system, I don’t even use swap anymore.


  • So fixing it is literally just what you’d have to do before reinstalling anyway. Reduce your root partition from a live system, increase swap partition, re-initialize swap. Done.

    Also, the Debian installer tells you how big a swap partition it creates and asks you if that is what you want twice.


  • I don’t understand what you did that means you have to reinstall. Most issues can be solved in system.
    One thing that made me switch back from Arch to Debian Sid was third party support.
    The Arch wiki is great but for some things, I read through the 30-step process with multiple links to other wiki articles and then see there’s a preconfigured installer for .Deb available…