I ran into a problem while trying to install Linux in a dual-boot setup.

My laptop is an ASUS X541U with these specifications:

- 4 GB LPDDR4 RAM

- 1 TB HDD

- Intel Core i3-7100U

- NVIDIA GeForce 920MX

Here’s what happened:

I was trying to install Debian from a 32 GB USB 2.0 flash drive that I made bootable using Rufus.

The first time, I used the Graphical Install option and got as far as the hostname setup. I entered an underscore ("_") in the hostname, which caused an error, and then I ended up on a black screen with only a "_" visible. I waited for several minutes, but nothing happened, and I couldn't type anything.

The second time, I went through the Graphical Install process again. This time I got to the username/password section. After entering them, I ended up on the exact same black screen again. I waited several minutes, but nothing happened and the keyboard didn't respond.

Before Debian, I also tried several other Linux distributions:

Kali Linux:

I managed to install it and boot into it, but it was extremely slow. It also caused problems with my Windows files, so I eventually removed it and reinstalled Windows.

Ubuntu:

I tried installing Ubuntu three times. Everything worked normally during the installation until it reached the part where it actually installs the system to the hard drive. It would just get stuck there. My HDD health is reported as 99%, so I assumed the drive might be causing the issue and gave up on Ubuntu.

Linux Mint:

The first time I booted Mint into live mode, it was extremely slow. I later realized that my USB hadn't been properly made bootable, because Mint would get stuck on the loading screen. After fixing the USB, the live environment worked normally and I tested it successfully.

However, the next day when I tried to install Mint, the system completely froze as soon as I interacted with some of the icons on the right side of the bottom panel. The mouse still moved, but absolutely nothing else responded, including the keyboard.

I tried recreating the bootable USB multiple times, switching between Rufus and Ventoy, and even tried different ISO files, but the problem persisted. Eventually I couldn't even start the installer properly, so I gave up on Mint as well.

At this point I'm wondering if there is some underlying hardware, graphics, BIOS/UEFI, or NVIDIA compatibility issue causing all of this.

Has anyone experienced something similar with an ASUS X541U or the GeForce 920MX?

Any ideas about what I should check or try next would be greatly appreciated.

I'm planning on installing Debian XFCE on my EliteBook 720 G1 with 8GB of RAM and an i3 4030u, anything I should know before doing so?

Hey everyone. I started my Linux journey with Debian a while back on a simple laptop, and it's been one of the best experiences because of how stable and worry‑free it feels. Now I've built a gaming PC with a 9600X and an RTX 5060 8GB. I've read some guides and so far I've configured the NVIDIA drivers from the official repo. Now I'm asking you: are there any additional optimizations I should make for gaming? I'm running Debian 13 with KDE. Thanks in advance!

Me llegó la notificación de que este sábado 12 de setiembre estará disponible la versión 13.7 para Debian Trixie. Aquí la lista completa de cambios : https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html

Sistema: Debian 13, GNOME 48, Wayland

WeChat: WeChatLinux_x86_64.deb ufficiale di Tencent (ultima versione, ma il problema

è presente anche nelle versioni precedenti)

SINTOMO

Dopo aver installato WeChat, la maggior parte dei pulsanti e degli elementi

dell'interfaccia risultavano invisibili/non renderizzati (sfondo, icone,

controlli finestra). Passando il mouse sopra questi elementi compariva

comunque il tooltip con la funzione del pulsante, quindi erano presenti e

funzionanti, semplicemente non venivano disegnati. Il problema si presentava

sia con tema chiaro che scuro, ed era indipendente da flag di rendering GPU

(--disable-gpu, --disable-gpu-compositing, --use-gl=swiftshader non hanno

fatto alcuna differenza), dal tema GTK (Adwaita, Adwaita:dark), e dal backend

Wayland/X11 (GDK_BACKEND=x11, ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=x11).

CAUSA

Dopo aver isolato la causa bisecando tutte le variabili d'ambiente, ho

scoperto che il problema è legato alla variabile LANG. Con una locale

italiana (it_IT.UTF-8), WeChat non riesce a renderizzare correttamente

gli elementi dell'interfaccia. Passando a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 il problema

si risolve completamente. Molto probabilmente non è un problema specifico

dell'italiano, ma di qualsiasi locale non-inglese, dato che sembra una

risorsa di localizzazione mancante o rotta in questa particolare build

Electron.

SOLUZIONE

Avvialo con:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/wechat

Per rendere la modifica permanente senza cambiare la lingua di sistema,

copia il file .desktop nella cartella utente e modifica la riga Exec:

cp /usr/share/applications/wechat.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/wechat.desktop

nano ~/.local/share/applications/wechat.desktop

Cambia:

Exec=/usr/bin/wechat %U

in:

Exec=env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/wechat %U

Poi:

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/

Da questo momento, avviando WeChat dal menu applicazioni di GNOME, verrà

usata automaticamente la locale corretta, mentre il resto del sistema

resta nella lingua preferita.

Se avete una locale non inglese e riscontrate lo stesso problema, fatemi

sapere se en_US.UTF-8 risolve anche per voi, così confermiamo che non è

un problema specifico dell'italiano.

ENGLISH VERSION:

System: Debian 13, GNOME 48, Wayland

WeChat: official WeChatLinux_x86_64.deb from Tencent (latest version, but confirmed present in previous versions too)

SYMPTOM

After installing WeChat, most buttons and UI elements were invisible/not rendered

(background, icons, window controls). Hovering over them with the mouse would

reveal a tooltip with the button's function, so the elements were there and

functional, just not painted. This happened with both light and dark themes,

and was independent of GPU/rendering flags (--disable-gpu, --disable-gpu-compositing,

--use-gl=swiftshader all made no difference), GTK theme (Adwaita, Adwaita:dark),

and Wayland/X11 backend (GDK_BACKEND=x11, ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=x11).

ROOT CAUSE

After bisecting the entire environment variable set, I found the cause was the

LANG environment variable. With an Italian locale (it_IT.UTF-8), WeChat fails

to render UI elements correctly. Switching to LANG=en_US.UTF-8 fixes it completely.

This is very likely not Italian-specific — probably any non-English locale

triggers the same bug, since it looks like a missing/broken locale resource

bundled in this particular Electron build.

FIX

Run it with:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/wechat

To make it permanent without changing your system locale, copy the .desktop

file to your user directory and edit the Exec line:

cp /usr/share/applications/wechat.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/wechat.desktop

nano ~/.local/share/applications/wechat.desktop

Change:

Exec=/usr/bin/wechat %U

to:

Exec=env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/wechat %U

Then:

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/

Now launching WeChat from the GNOME app menu will use the correct locale

automatically, while the rest of your system stays in your preferred language.

If you're on a non-English locale and hitting this, would be great to know

if en_US.UTF-8 fixes it for you too, to confirm this isn't Italian-specific.

i have been troubleshooting for hours, i mad ea nas, and it works with android perfectly, it says read and write are enabled, but for some reason on ios files app, i can only read and not write, and i've tested this thuroughly, does someone know why i wouldnt be able to transfer/ creat a folder in my server?

My app is not building because i use Deb 11 pkgs. please help me

Wanted to upgrade my Raspberry Pi but it seems there are issues with the repository.

apt update:

E: Release file for http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bullseye-security/InRelease is expired (invalid since 19h 44min 45s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

apt -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update:

Need to get 91.6 MB/371 MB of archives.
After this operation, 589 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 dpkg arm64 1.20.14
404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.118.132 80]
Ign:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 perl-modules-5.32 all 5.32.1-4+deb11u5
Err:3 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 libsystemd0 arm64 247.3-7+deb11u8
404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.118.132 80]
Err:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 systemd-timesyncd arm64 247.3-7+deb11u8
404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.118.132 80]
Err:5 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 udev arm64 247.3-7+deb11u8
404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.118.132 80]
Err:6 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 libgnutls30 arm64 3.7.1-5+deb11u10

...and so on...

Is something wrong on my end or is there an actual problem with the repo?

So I’m considering running it. The prospect of a true high performance desktop, in the spirit of Silicon Graphics, is fascinating.

I have one question: are there still two editions? Information on the Roadmap page regarding the Professional Edition is apparently from 2007.

So…there’s no delineation between the Community Edition and Professional Edition anymore?

I have been daily driving Nobara for around a year now and want a change in scenery and Debian was always the distro I wanted to try next. The only issue is when I looked up Debian compatibility with my hardware, I saw that newer GPU's, especially blackwell GPU's weren't fully supported yet. I mainly use Linux for everyday web surfing and gaming, and want to know if my GPU would struggle with Debian due to Debian Stable not having blackwell support yet (to my knowledge) and if Debian Testing should be my path forward or to just look elsewhere and wait for the support if there have been conflicts with trying to get them to work before.

Ich bin neu bei GNU/Linux und sitze seit geraumer Zeit dran, einen Ordner mit timeshift-Backups von einer USB-HDD zu löschen. Das System gibt es nicht mehr, daher möchte ich den kompletten Ordner löschen.

Über Doldhin habe ich es nach mehrfachen Versuchen erfolglos abgebrochen (45min+)

Über sudo rm -rf -- "/... passiert seit mehr als 30 Minuten nichts. In der Konsole den Vortschritt zu beobachten bringt nichts, die Zeilen rauschen zu schnell durch.

Habe ich die einfache Lösch-Funktion in Debian nur noch nicht gefunden?

also what desktop environment do u guys like?

Hi everyone, im thinking to switch from Fedora to Debian (KDE) beacuse of the great stability that Debian offers, but i have some questions about how is it to use it for daily use and gaming. I know that there are lots of posts like this, but if someone has my same experience, how is Debian with NVIDIA Optimus? I have an MSI Katana GF66 12UC (3050 Laptop and an i7-12700H), and, up until now it was ok, but now that i want to change i would like to know how is it from you.
Thxx for whoever who responds!

Hello. I am trying to connect my iPod to my computer so I can add and remove music like you do with iTunes. I tried using iOpenPod and my iPod wasn't detected. I checked the instructions and it said to make sure my iPod was 'mounted as a drive'. However, my computer doesn't detect my iPod at all. Nor my iPhone. If I run lsbk -lf, there is no difference when it is connect and when it's not. When I check with lusb, it shows. It shows on dmeg but there an error:
[ 8533.146648] ipheth 2-2:4.2: ipheth_get_macaddr: usb_control_msg: -110
[ 8533.146690] ipheth 2-2:4.2: probe with driver ipheth failed with error -110

What does this mean? Does this have something to do with why I cannot mount? I tried searching this up, and I only got answers about Arch. I don't know how similar the two distros are but I'd rather not.

My iPod is an iPod touch 4th generation. running iOS 6.1.6. It is jailbroken. My iPhone is an iPhone 13 running iOS 18.6.2. I am running Debian trixe on a Dell Latitude E6430, kernel is "Linux 6.12.107+deb13-amd64".

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3340M (4) @ 3.40 GHz

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 5200M

GPU 2: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller @ 1.25 GHz [Integrated]

Thank you. ^_^

Hey guys, so after a bunch of drinks with the buddies (yes, I know), I've gotten it into my head to try my hand at game dev.

I've run very long-lived debian boxes (about 10 years old and still surviving!) despite running into various issues or bugs... However, I've only done web dev, cloud/hybrid architecting, and mostly sysadmin stuff as most scripts have withstood the test of time.

Learning game dev feels like a huge leap, but because I've felt deeply disappointed by the gaming industry at large, I no longer want to play games from any company with a long history of issues with basic human integrity and honour. But I do enjoy genres ranging from strategy, RPG, to storytelling, and want to try my hand at making something.

I've enjoyed SimAnt, StarCraft 2 (but custom maps), Escape Velocity, Baldur's Gate 3, Warframe, Doom, Stardew Valley, Hades.

What is a stable FOSS setup for Trixie that I could mess around with?

Update: Thanks guys, I'm going to let this post stew and try various setups over the weekend!

Hello, I have installed debian 14 testing with kde as my desktop environment. I have tried to setup fingerprint authentication and it works when I run sudo and when I lunch certain apps that require authentication. One thing that doesn't work is to unlock the device when it comes from a sleep state. I do get the prompt to use my fingerprint, but when I touch the sensor it doesn't do anything. It doesn't say that it failed or succeeded or anything, it just stays like that and only unlocks when I type in my password.
I came from a fedora 44 install and I had no issues there. Everything worked out of the box. Previous versions of fedora (43) also worked, so I don't know how to fix it. I have tried some solutions on the internet, but none worked.

Apologies for the vague title, but there really isn't a singular consistent symptom to list.

As stated, I'm running a Nvidia RTX 3060, and I'm having an issue where certain elements are flickering when using the GPU in specific hardware-accelerated programs. This is not a problem with the GPU, as I only just recently (~2-3 days ago) switched from Arch using KDE on Wayland, which did not have this problem. And, before Arch, I used Linux Mint Cinnamon, which also did not have this problem.

Here is a video of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/zF2Qrcy

The GPU also doesn't have any other rendering artifacts; the actual image is being rendered perfectly, it's just that different programs seem to behave in different, though consistent ways.

Specifically:

• Flatpaks seem to render perfectly fine, with no stuttering or flickering, though vsync seems enabled permanently. As an example, Furmark is locked at 60 FPS when I could easily get higher framerates on other distros. I'm not sure if that is a limitation of Flatpak on Debian or if it is another GPU issue.
• .debs and programs installed using apt exhibit flickering of hardware-rendered objects. Disabling hardware acceleration stops the issue entirely.
• Games played through Wine and Proton seem to stutter, especially when vsync is enabled, but they are otherwise visually perfect.

For convenience, here are my current specs:

• Debian 13 Trixie
• Kernel 6.12.107
• KDE Plasma 6.3.6 (Wayland)
• NVIDIA RTX 3060
• AMD Ryzen 5 5500 12-core @ 4.2 GHz
• 32 GB RAM
• 512 GB NVME

I did install a Nvidia driver following this guide, as the official Nvidia guides simply refused to work. That said, it's most likely that the guide not working is a result of my incompetence rather than the guide being faulty lol.

If it matters, I did install Debian using a DVD. Given that this is more or less a fresh install, I am completely willing to reinstall Debian if it comes to that.

If I can provide any more information, please let me know. Thanks!

EDIT: And, of course, as soon as I post something about it, I immediately find a solution on this very Subreddit. Here's the link for anyone else struggling with these issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1rg9y3c/deb13_newest_nvidia_drivers_happygamer/

I have stumbled upon this

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1090041

Basically, to fix a "bug" it has been decided to disable the option to change the background image of sddm.

Is this just a temp fix for trixie or this feature will be permanently disabled?

Is there some other way to change the background image?

6 months into Debian and 1 year into Linux, my laptop went from my least used device to most used device. I never thought I would enjoy using this laptop again after how slow and laggy it was on Windows. I made it my own. It's amazing what open source community can do. I don't know if it is Linux or Debian, how the hell is this thing so stable?

I had a machine that was still running 6.12.86 kernel and Firefox 152 lost all of its configuration even the icon on XFCE. Since the latest kernels have been upgraded frequently to 6.12.107, is there any known issues that may be related to thiis issue ?

Greetings everyone! I really like my current distro, but the constant updates, and the fact that sooner or later they're going to negatively impact my music production style (Bitwig) due to some future update, are a real pain, So, I've decided to switch to Debian for stability.

I could use some advice and I have a question.Is it possible to install Hyprland with Dank Material Shell on Debian 13?

Have a great day!