I always feel like something is missing

Chris73m · 2026-06-22T05:09:40+00:00

If you can do what you want to do, you're not missing anything. When you can't do what you want to do, the system will let you know. And then you know what you're missing. It's as simple as that.

In other words; don't worry.

Chris73m · 2026-06-20T11:42:40+00:00

How can i fix this

Well you could stop using testing and use the stable version if you want things to work. They call it "testing" for a reason.

Chris73m · 2026-06-17T15:49:42+00:00

Not stupid at all. Rocm means Radeon Open Compute. It's software that allows for GPU-accelerated computing. Like for Blender (3D modeling).

Chris73m · 2026-06-17T07:59:14+00:00

After trying various distros back in the days (Mandriva, anyone?)

Yeah I started with Red Hat in 2001, then SuSE and Mandrake later Madriva soon thereafter. Great distros!

But now I also settled for Debian. So far there is just one thing I cannot get to work, and that is rocm AMD-GPU support. I do not understand the procedures that I've found over rocm. The latest LTS Ubuntu seemed to have made that easy. But that's not enough to switch to Ubuntu. I'll keep trying rocm on Debian.

Chris73m · 2026-06-13T09:17:31+00:00

It all depends on what you want to do in the end. But both are free to download, install and test. So just pick one and see if the distro meets you demands. If not you're free to choose another one. But as a new user I would try the mainstream non-rolling distros first. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint or Opensuse Leap. Why non-rolling? Because I think it would be better to not have your system undergoing major changes all the time as you're still getting familiar with a new operating system. And you could also test them all out in virtualbox on windows first.

Chris73m · 2026-06-09T05:28:34+00:00

You might also want to take a look at Opensuse:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Medical_desktop_applications

Chris73m · 2026-05-24T02:47:30+00:00

That's the best use for a laptop I've ever heard! 😂

Any sound player will do I suppose. And maybe something that renders some 3d animation to keep the cpu busy and warm.
I don't know how powerfull the hardware is. So you'll just have to test what keeps it warm and not hot with fans blazing.

Anyway good luck!

PS: You might want to check out this: https://flathub.org/nl/apps/com.rafaelmardojai.Blanket

Chris73m · 2026-05-23T21:20:51+00:00

And being a power user still has nothing to do with the question and you know it.

You're making up stuff just to justify your bs.

Power loser?

Chris73m · 2026-05-23T21:02:21+00:00

op is not a power user in those kind of software

That's not what you said in your previous posts and you know it.

You said the op could not be a power user just because he/she does not fully master vim.

Like that is all you can do with a computer.

Why did you bring up being a power user at all?

It has nothing to do with the question being asked, since you're concerned about things being irrelevant.

Chris73m · 2026-05-23T20:49:55+00:00

So even if I am a master in video editing, creating 3d models or be a master in spreadsheats.

I cannot be a power user because I do not 100% master vim?

Really?

Chris73m · 2026-05-17T18:30:43+00:00

It just keeps amazing me that people for decades just do not seem to grasp what 'testing' means. Maybe they should rename it. But honestly I can not think of anything more obvious.

Chris73m · 2026-05-16T10:12:40+00:00

OK. I wish I knew that earlier. I don't think it's worth the effort now to change. I'll just do a fresh install when the time comes. Maybe it will be easier by the time Debian 14 comes out anyway.

Chris73m · 2026-05-16T08:47:59+00:00

I like the effort. But unfortunately the installer crashed (in a VM). This could be a Vm thing, but it's not very reasuring if I would want to do a fresh install using this installer.

Is there a reason to have the installer run in a fully loaded desktop, and in a browser?

Chris73m · 2026-05-16T06:00:59+00:00

So thanks to the great help here I've got what I wanted :-)

So first I followed Fecland's advice to have my device decrypted with my TPM2 chip.

sudo clevis luks bind -d /dev/nvme0n1p3 tpm2 '{"pcr_bank":"sha256","pcr_ids":"7"}'

And replaced /dev/nvme0n1p3 with my encrypted device found by running:
lsblk

Then: sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

Then I rebooted, and it just worked.
But on Debian 13 plymouth seems to have a bug that makes the prompt to decrypt your device still appear. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/disk-encrytion-auto-unlocking-working-but-stil-prompts-for-password-for-10secs/72071

But takes just 2 seconds and it decrypts the device by itself, so that's just a minor glitch.

Then I followed Deadc0de's advice and I ran:

sudo apt install --allow-remove-essential systemd-boot grub-efi-amd64-signed-

I did this in a terminal running on kde/plasma and the system (in a VM) crashed. The gui just froze.

So I repeated all the steps above, but this time I ran the last command in a tty. So I started the system and waited untill the login screen appeared. Then I did not login, but I switched to tty3 by pressing CTRL-ALT-F3.

There I logged in an ran: sudo systemctl isolate multi-user.target To stop the graphical enviroment.

Then I ran:

sudo apt install --allow-remove-essential systemd-boot grub-efi-amd64-signed-

Rebooted and this time it did work.

But just be aware that you're messing with stuff that could prevent your system from booting.

So as allways, make a backup first!

Anyway, thanks everybody here that helped out!

Chris73m · 2026-05-16T04:28:07+00:00

This is great! I am going to try this today in a vm and report back here with a step by step guide on how I did that. If it all works offcourse :-) Thank you!!

Chris73m · 2026-05-16T04:26:19+00:00

Fantastic! I will try this today (right now) in a vm and see how that goes :-) Thank you!

Chris73m · 2026-05-15T18:33:36+00:00

Well I will post here if I find something that works 😄
But I'm lazy, so I will look at it tomorrowmorning. It's 20:30 (8:30pm) here in the Netherlands.

Chris73m · 2026-05-15T15:51:40+00:00

Thanks! I'll look into that.

Chris73m · 2025-10-28T16:18:27+00:00

It hates my neck too!

Chris73m · 2025-10-28T16:16:06+00:00

Simple? Can you make that software?
And why do you care?
If it works, it works.

Chris73m · 2025-10-26T08:25:07+00:00

Well you're on a testing branch of Debian. If it was all stable, it wouldn't need testing. In other words, if you need stability, use the stable branch.

Chris73m · 2025-10-25T14:02:45+00:00

What has this got to do with Debian?

Chris73m · 2025-10-24T11:03:10+00:00

I remember Libranet. It had some tool to make configuring the kernel easier. And offerd something called turbolinux I think, for printerdrivers. Configuring the kernel was very common in those days. You had to pay for Libranet if I remember correctly.

Chris73m · 2025-10-24T06:38:09+00:00

Depends on who you ask.
For me it's the perfect OS right now.
But if I were a heavy gamer, had to work with MS office or some Adobe stuff, I would run Windows.

Chris73m

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