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Debian Testing as a daily driver - can anyone share their experience? (piefed.ca)
submitted 1 day ago by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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I'm ditching Ubuntu for Debian. But I'm wondering if I shouldn't use Debian Testing instead of Stable to get more updated software.

Tuxedo OS is going to rebase their distro on Debian Testing, and I've heard that it's actually pretty stable for a non-stable distro, which is why I'm considering it. But, I want your hear about your experience. What kind of trouble do you frequently run into? Any traps I should look out for?

I really want something that's going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that's simply going to get out of my way. I don't have time to troubleshoot my PC after a whole ass day of troubleshooting some company's software shit.

Before you tell me to switch to whatever other distro, I'm not interested. I want to use Debian. I'm used to it's packaging system and how it's set up and I know it's a super stable distro. And I fully support the people behind it and their social contract.

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Proton VPN doesn't work on Debian testing? Is it due to dependencies?

Have you tried the flathub version? (Though it's not officially developed by Proton, so I dunno if you should use it.)

This could be a dealbreaker because I use Proton VPN.

[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~I used proton vpn on Debian for a while just fine. Not exactly the same, but you can still set up the GUI app.~~

Edit: Don't mind me lol I remember having issues with testing. Just read/processed everything.

[–] staircase@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The GUI/CLI apps don't yet work, but the firefox extension does. Also, you can probably work around it by using the wireguard config detailed on the proton website, which is reasonably straightforward.

and yes it's dependencies. some python metadata package

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I went ahead and installed in in a VM, and Proton VPN has a native package available directly in Debian's repo in testing!

It works perfectly.

[–] staircase@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would you mind linking me to the instructions you used? It still doesn't work for me

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

It was a brand new install with KDE desktop. I searched for it in the software updater and. It was there as a .deb.