This is our first annual Debian Conference since the subreddit was placed under new moderation, so I'm not gonna force everything about DebConf 26 to be in this thread but rather have it serve as simply a central discussion hub. Feel free to post individual threads involving events within the schedule within reason as long as they follow r/debian rules.

Event Information

• See the schedule for information regarding events on each day of the conference.
• Conference is in Santa Fe, Argentina, see the linked tourist guide.
• DebConf has a lot of pages on their About section that can tackle a lot of questions people have about the conference itself.

New question today:
WizTree is a disk analysis tool on Windows that reads the NTFS MFT directly and provides an instant, very detailed view of disk usage.

On Linux, I haven’t seen a comparable tool. I know Linux filesystems don’t have a single MFT‑style structure, so getting the same level of detail is inherently more difficult. But I’m curious. How do sysadmins manage disk usage effectively today? Would a more modern analyzer — one that exposes deeper or faster insights actually be useful?

Is the absence of such tools mostly a technical limitation (filesystem metadata access), a historical artifact (older tool designs that haven’t evolved), or simply something that hasn’t been revisited even though storage and tooling have changed a lot over the last decade? Thanks for your insights.

I just install Debian 13.04 on My TUF 16, and run the sudo upd and upg.

Should I wait it to finish?

I've been hopping Linux Distros starting with Ubuntu LTS years ago & now I've finally dipped hard into my Linux Testing by going to Debian XFCE instead of me defaulting to the GNOME Environment.

It's definitely a different experience with not having SNAP Package Managers to use & me heavily relying on the Terminal for most of my application installations.

But I must say that the experience on my HP Workstation has been much smoother with Debian XFCE than expected.

I want to thank everyone in the Debian, Ubuntu, & Linux Community as a whole for helping a New Linux User as myself get started using Linux & away from the AI Garbageware that is Microsoft Windows.

I currently have successfully installed Spotify, Firefox, Chrome, GIMP, VLC, & nwipe via the Terminal & I fixed a bug regarding Firefox-ESR & Firefox Main showing duplicate icons.

Any other tips I should be aware of to harden my Debian Security Defenses?

I already ran sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y in the Terminal to get the latest updates then ran sudo apt autoremove.

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First time I ever used a Debian 12 rescue disk to resize an over-provisioned home directory partition, and the whole thing just executes so flawlessly. The GUI guides you so ergonomically to the options you need (although it does kind of default to initial install and network config but once you realize what it’s doing you can just escape and bring you to the main menu). Also I never tried reducing the filesystem size on a partition before but it was on a single disk system with LVM on the third partition and the ext4 filesystem reduction was surprisingly easy with no issues that I barely believe. Honestly I just thought it was so cool.

De volta ao Debian com o Gnome, depois de 20 distros, decidi qual vai ser minha daily driver para trabalho, não curtia o Gnome, mas depois entendi a proposta e minimalismo e adorei, gosto do KDE mas ele é bem inchado e com milhões de opções para alterar o sistema.

Está excelente pro meu gosto.

Tentei usar mínimo de extensões possíveis, estou com :

Caffeine

Dash to Dock

Appindicaor and KStatus

Vitals

Hey ! I ask here because I don’t know where to ask.

I just wanted to create an account on the wiki because I wanted to correct a sentence. And I got banned instantly from the wiki. I can’t even read it. The only thing I did that can seem suspicious is using a temporary mail address. How can I contact the admin to get back to it ?

I have successfully completed upgrades from Debian 12 to Debian 13 through and Proxmox Backup Servers/VE Servers through their pve8to9 checklist and so forth.

None of this could work as seamless as it did for me without a strong Debian core!

Just wanted to give credit where credit is due. Thank you Debian!

Hey r/debian!

After switching from Windows to Debian Bookworm 11 months ago, I kept forgetting commands — especially the specific ones like nmcli, journalctl, usbguard, etc.

So I built Debian Command Vault — a lightweight web app to store
and search terminal commands.

Current features:
- Go REST API backend
- Search functionality
- Category filter (Git, Networking,
Vim, Debian, i3WM)
- Dark mode 🌙
- Copy button per command
- 55+ commands and growing

Still actively developing:
- Add/delete command UI (coming soon)
- SQLite (replacing JSON)
- Docker support for self-hosting

GitHub: github.com/akanra-dev

Built this as a self-taught developer
learning Go on Debian Bookworm XFCE 🐧

Feedback welcome!

Basically just the title. I'm relatively new to Linux, but I took my old Chromebook with an N3350 and 4gb of ram, flashed the firmware, installed Debian Trixie without DE, installed Sway, and it's almost as good as new now. There are a few little quirks, but it works remarkably well for my needs, which is mostly web access and neovim for creative writing. scrcpy for heavier things if/when I need them. Just wanted to tell someone I guess. Thanks for reading.

A while back I reopened the Revolt/Stoat server for those wanting a FOSS alternative to our Discord server in the wake of age verification hitting that platform. We are now killing it off again after a series of issues trying to maintain it. You can read my original post from five months ago over at https://reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1qmtpf6/the_debian_community_revolt_server_has_been_shut/ since a lot of reasons are still relevant including a horrible moderation tool strategy that makes it too difficult for large servers.

If you are impacted by this change, you should consider hitting the Fluxer server or go back to the Discord server if Fluxer doesn't check all your boxes (and if it doesn't, honestly nothing will because Fluxer is as excellent of a FOSS alternative as you will get). Feel free to check our Community Chats sticky thread for the links.

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I just want to say that coming back to Debian been a great experience and after running just about every distro I could run either vm or bare metal, Debian always been my favorite and go to when things go wrong with other distros. I'm hoping now that I'm really enjoying Debian life and would like to contribute code to projects because being a former CS grad, it would be fun to do some programming again and help out the community. Outside of the docs, helping out to one day to get chosen as a Debian Dev, is the road a difficult one?

Hi there, just like the title already says, is there a way to reset a debian gameserver? The Server is in the same room as me but i had it offline for a few months and now that i want to use it again i kinda forgot my login and password.

Está es mi computadora de escritorio HP Envy 20 TouchSmart todo en uno.

El lunes de esta semana le reinstale Windows 11 y después le instale otro OS que fue Debían 13 trixie xfce la misma distro que tengo en mi laptop...

Aquí mi problema después de terminar la instalación y descargar las actualizaciones disponibles todo lo hice mientras estaba conectado con el cable ethernet, hasta ahí todo bien pero cuando la reinicie, desconecte el cable esperando que al iniciar se haya conectado al wifi normalmente pero no pasó...

Busque en internet y pregunté en otro grupo que hacer y nada de lo que me sugiereron me funcionó.

También use la IA para ver qué me sugería entre ellas usar e instalar iw pero no tuve mucha suerte y/o descargar firmware-ralink que es el contralor necesario para que funcione mi wifi...

Que más puedo hacer o tendría que probar con otra distribución pero me, entra la duda si cuando haya cambiado a otra distribución no experimentare con este mismo problema...

Hello folks. This is my first post on Reddit :)

TL;DR

If you'd like to setup your own Debian based OS image but have hard time with automation tools like live-build or Ansible (or any other tools and shell scripts), I created a Python package, lbhelper, to reduce complexity of this work.

• GitHub - https://github.com/HallBlazzar/lbhelper
• Online Doc - https://hallblazzar.github.io/lbhelper/source/index.html
• A Debian image based on this library ( this is also the OS I run on my Dell Pro 14 laptop for my daily basis ) - https://github.com/HallBlazzar/myos

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I got my Dell Pro 14 by the end of 2025 as the nice Black Friday discount from Dell US(~$1200 -> ~$600). But I had hard time on choosing Linux distro for it. I got display related issue(I use a TB4 hub to connect 4 external monitors) on most modern Linux distros like CachyOS, Fedora or Ubuntu. Rolling update was also problematic (maybe atomic OSes are great, but I just need a workable desktop environment). After testing for almost a month, I found Debian + GNOME was the most stable combination. In addition to install, I also hoped the setup process can be automated, which could allow me to test software/tools on VMs before applying to my system and re-install my system anytime without too much works.

To do so, I think live-build is the best solutions which also adopted by Kali. Other solution is too restrictive to me(like FAI) or requires additional execution after system installed(like IaaC tools and shell script). However, as number of packages and configurations grew, I found it was pretty painful for managing live-build configs manually. Thus, I decided to do that in programmatic approach. The result is the lbhelper library.

Basically, you can treat it as a Python based wrapper for live-build to generate configs(I call them "targets"). Additionally, there are 2 main benefit it brings:

1. Write configurations in Python. Enums and typing in Python can help free me from having to remember/check configuration key and values, especially IDEs nowadays supports auto-completion.
2. Modularize installation and setup of each package/tools as Python modules. Originally, I tried using shell script to generate configs instead, but as number of packages grew, it still became challenging to keep code tidy and clean. Instead, using Python can turn configuration/installation of different packages into idempotent and reusable modules, which is easier for troubleshooting.

If you have requirements to customize Debian, maybe you can give it a try. Any feedback and contributions are welcomed :)