I use debian headless as a server never had any issues but then again pretty much any linux system is gonna be a decent server since everything is containerised now.
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I don't have issues yet on stable 12.5 but I plan to switch to nixos eventually.
Stable is for servers, unstable for desktop. It has worked for 20 years. I actually installed two further Debian workstations recently after trying and failing with Kubuntu. So .... no, I don't have this problem.
No idea why busybox is needed. Is this is your emergency boot environment like initramfs? Sometimes it's nice that Linux boots up and offers an environment to fix stuff while some modules are broken.
Busybox is used in the initramfs normally. It's the shell used by any scripts in that early stage, as well as the fallback shell environment.
No idea why busybox is needed. Is this is your emergency boot environment like initramfs?
I cannot for the life of me find the particular fix I followed, but I swear it was a missing symlink to busybox. Not in initramfs, but in the full booted environment. That's why I was so confused haha. I can't find anything about it right now, so maybe I'm misremembering something...
Debian was always like this.
I can't remember the last time I installed Debian and it failed. I last installed it a month ago. Gnome takes some tweaking for me. Mostly to get that stock Ubuntu feel. Nothing extension manager can't do.
when i see a debian user i see a future fedora user
When I see a Fedora user, I see a future Arch user btw
idk i can do everything that arch can do, with distrobox and having a immutable distro on top
When I see an Arch user, I see a future NixOS user FWIW
This is funny because on a laptop I had I did this exact same progression - I started on Debian, but it didn’t have the right kernel version for my audio drivers, so I switched to Fedora, but it was running slowly (probably because of gnome, it lets you choose so this was my fault) so I moved to arch (with xfce) because it has a reputation for being relatively lightweight. It worked better, but it took longer to get working with the unusual chromebook hardware.
I'm considering moving to Debian Stable plus Flathub for graphical desktop packages like Firefox, it works well on the Steam Deck. SteamOS also provides Distrobox which helps in some cases.
Debian is a server OS. Running it on desktop is like having frying oil for dinner.