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Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do they even need busybox if the base install already comes with full gnu coreutils? I remember Debian as the distro that Just Wroks(TM), when did it all go so wrong? Is anyone else here having similar issues, or am I doing something wrong?

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Huh? Install testing or sid?

The Debian way is to install stable then change your sources.list to either testing or unstable.

I call shenanigans.

edit: what version was Stable using before 11Jun? 'cause it's 115.12.0esr-1 right now.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats not a good idea unless you do a proper upgrade (dist upgrade or similar)

It is easier to use the testing iso

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

the wiki must be out of date then

[–] Anonymo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can try this:

https://siduction.org/

Even has BTRFS setup with Snapper (or Timeshift maybe) and nala is an option.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/05/siduction_2022_1/ Overview.