Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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If there is anyone who wants to help Debian by running testing, here is a guilde I maintain: (lemmy.myserv.one)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/2233387

If you like Debian and like to help make it better, and also want to use testing please review this guide where I try to cover many common things and improve your experience:

https://makedebianfunagainandlearnhowtodoothercoolstufftoo.computer/doku.php?id=start

Thanks for being a Debian testing user :)

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[–] jake_jake_jake_ 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the domain got me at first, but doku wiki is cool and initial glance looks like some very good effort was put in! will look more later, as i don't have a "perfect" debian setup for personal use and i want to ditch my windows vm.

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

I am a great believer in not taking life too seriously. We are just an accident after all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you are planning on adding things, my humble suggestion would be how to write a really good bug report, maybe going through how to research what went wrong to narrow down the problem, looking for already filed bug reports, using diff and patch if you have a proposed solution, using reportbug, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ok good suggestion. I will knock something up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm new-ish to Linux and new to Debian, but I literally just did a (second) Debian 12 install, so I have one note about your Firefox's documentation, specifically about "chromium's suggestion" when uninstalling Firefox. https://makedebianfunagainandlearnhowtodoothercoolstufftoo.computer/doku.php?id=start:firefoxesr

Besides Firefox ESR, it came bundled with "Konqueror". Don't know if it depends on your installation's configuration, though. I selected to install "non-free" software, if it helps. So for me it didn't complain when I uninstalled Firefox ESR, it just set Konqueror as the default web browser

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@Olissipo @Thief Konqueror is KDE specific.
It is also a file browser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Makes sense, thank you for the clarification.

It is also a file browser.

And apparently also supports FTP/SFTP, quite nifty.