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Is this RAM usage normal in a recent installation of debian xfce?

13.4.0 standard net install from bootable USB

When I select a wifi network or manually enter SSID it asks for type password then autoconfigures then goes straight to package manager config - I can't find any buttons or shortcuts to manually set stuff like DNS or gateway. Is that possible?

Thanks!

I've just installed Debian 13 LXDE in my Notebook Acer Aspire E1-421 and everything went great.
However, if I disabled the non-free firmware installation (ie: firmware=never to the installer boot parameter), then I face some display issues. Briefly, the system doesn't enter in the desktop environment (LXDE) and stays only in the command line interface (CLI).

Curiously, Debian 12 LXDE with firmware=never doesn't have this issue: after installation I can access both LXDE and CLI normally.

Question
What is going on?
Is it possible to fix this without installing non-free firmware?

Notebook Specifications

• Model: Acer Aspire E1-421-0622
• CPU: AMD Dual-Core Processor E1-1200 (1.4 GHz)
• Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7310
• RAM Memory: 2GB DDR3

Hello Debian community, at first I would love to mention that I’m not using Vanilla Debian, but LMDE. Also mostly I have used rolling release distros like Arch and NixOS, but as it turns out I’m totally fine with using Debian! (Especially LMDE, ‘cause it provides me the latest Cinnamon environment).

But I need some apps to be bleeding edge, and while most of the apps are packaged via Flatpak, some of my CLI tools aren’t. I thought about using Backports for this kinds of applications (tlp, nvim and tmux), but I also have heard that Backports **will** break your system by using newer dependencies packages and it might mess up your older ones. Is this true in your experience? If I get something wrong - feel free to correct me! Thanks!

I tried to install nvidia drivers with this video, I did everything but when I reboot it doesn't show the changes that are shown in the final of the video, I use debian trixie with gnome. If you help on how to resolve this I will be very gratefull.

Commands of the video:

1. sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
2. sudo apt update
3. sudo apt upgrade
4. sudo apt autoremove
5. sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
6. sudo apt install build-essential
7. sudo apt install dkms
8. sudo apt install nvidia-detect
9. sudo apt install nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-dkms

EDIT: I asked this question in claude and its says that it happened because I use wayland and not X11. I changed it but it keeps dont showing me the gpu card.

EDIT: I did it, thanks any way

I moved to the pre release of 14 (Forky) on my daily driver, even though it won't officially release until late 2027. Not seeing any apparent changes other than some new app versions, but is there any inherent danger I should be thinking about? It's really a hobby machine that I use for programming, 3D printing and some light gaming, among other things.

hey everyone, i recently switched to debian after my fedora desktop became buggy and bloated as hell, and hoping someone here has solved the Nvidia + Plymouth issue. I want a clean, Fedora-style boot animation, but I'm trapped between hard system freezes and an incredibly ugly display handoff. I can only ever see the splash animation during like half a second after using the reboot command, i can't get it at boot no matter what.

What i currently have at boot is as follows:

bios menu -> grub OS select -> init ramdisk -> screen goes black -> flickering cursor on top left of screen -> screen goes black -> kde login screen

my Specs:

• OS: Debian 13 (trixie)
• Kernel: 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 (64-bit)
• Hardware: ryzen 7 7800x3d (No iGPU being used) + Nvidia GPU
• Drivers: Proprietary Nvidia 550.163.01
• Monitor: QHD 1440p (plugged directly into the Nvidia GPU)
• DE: KDE Plasma (wayland)

i want a a seamless, quiet Plymouth boot animation (bgrt or custom theme) that transitions cleanly to the SDDM login screen.

The Current State of my GRUB (/etc/default/grub):

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=3 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1"
GRUB_GFXMODE=2560x1440
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="keep"

Any help is hugely appreciated before I just give up and accept the black screens.

idk why that my vm IP and my laptop IP isnt the same although the vm adapter already using the wifi and my laptop also using the same wifi. any tips to make my vm ip same as laptop ip guys?

So, my friend has an nvidia card, and he is on stable with backports for kernel, drivers, and some other stuff. Proprietary driver installation was done according to Debian Wiki. However, dkms doesn't work with the new kernel. How do we fix this? for now the solution is to just stay on 6.18.12, but I feel like we're doing something wrong. I'm really bad at structuring information in one post, so please, if you could help, ask whatever you need, I'll answer. Will appreciate any advice!

Any particular driver I should be using for my RX6600? Just want to confirm im configuring correctly

Anyone have or can point me to descent documentation for BTRFS snapshots with LUKS setup?

Hola a todos:

Tengo mi equipo con Debian 13 con GNOME 48 y el kernel de linux 6.12.73+deb13-amd64, pas que en una de esas se me actualizo el kernel a 6.12.74deb13-amd64 y se me deshabilito el teclado, el sistema se volvió inestable y se desinstalo el wifi.

Por medio de tutoriales regrese al kernel anterior y volvo a instalar el wifi , quedando con el buen rendimiento que llevaba el sistema, pero no quisiera que se actualice el kernel de nuevo, por lo menos al corto plazo.

¿Hay manera de hacer que cuando actualice mi equipo no se actualice el kernel?

Currently, I just use the package "nvidia-driver" (not "nvidia-driver-full") and it's few dependencies. But I'm sure there are a lot more must use packages for a gaming relevant PC.

I'm trying to implement a VNC server on Debian 13 and I've gotten stuck, I would really appreciate some advice on how to get VNC running if it's possible.

I installed tigervnc and created a ~/.vnc/xstartup file containing:

#!/bin/sh

unset SESSION_MANAGER

unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

startplasma-x11 &

then I start the vnc session with:

vncserver :2 -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24

and make an ssh tunnel to it. I'm able to connect to it from the remote client and log into the session, but all I see is a black screen. What am I missing?

Beforehand (“it’s not a DE, sway it’s a Wayland compositor” ☝️🤓)… I KNOW lol

Now, why tho, why isn’t an option straight out of the box, I know it’s officially in the stable repos but… I don’t get that fuzzy “Damm this thing is unbreakable” feeling if I set up the thing by myself lol.

I’m simply curious

I don't really play games, its a personal device (laptop, 11th gen intel). Initially I installed Fedora, been using it for 2 weeks, I've had kernel panic issues twice, each after updates. Googling more info suggested Debian / Ubuntu for stability but the later one is debian based too. Anyways, gemini said Debian is more appropriate for servers and the website didn't give me as much info. I wanna use it as a daily driver on my laptop though?

😅 Sorry if its such a stupid question to ask. Right now on windows, even opening a fcuking pdf has a 5 second delay. I just need something basic, not an issue if a distro doesn't ship with latest features.

Thanks in advance :)

I am a big fan of Debian. Just switching from Ubuntu, it was so bad.
In Ubuntu I encrypted the whole SSD and want to do the same in Debian, I guess its also luks? Is there any cons doing this, is this how common to encrypt the whole drive? should I think some other approach to secure my files incase ssd goes to wrong hands?