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.
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Flatpak is awesome, I love it so much. It lets users pick a distro based on the unique features that distro provides, without having to worry about whether their favourite apps are packaged. Since you're considering switching to debian+flatpak, here is a list of pitfalls I've run into in flatpak so far, maybe this can save you some troubleshooting:
- You need to have a thing called an "xdg dekstop portal" installed. Otherwise filepickers will be broken. On Debian this should be a dependency of flatpak, so it should be installed by default tho.
- If you're manually restarting Xorg without using a display manager, make sure the xdg desktop portal process doesn't get started twice. Otherwise it will be broken
- As far as I understand, there's no way to use xdg desktop portal to forward an entire directory through to a flatpak'd app, unless the app itself asks specifically for a directory. So stuff like opening a
.html
file that references a.css
file in the same directory with a flatpak'd browser will be broken, unless you manually make an exception using Flatseal orflatpak override
. - Make sure your root filesystem is mounted with "shared" propagation, otherwise
umount
commands won't propagate into flatpak's sandbox, and drives will get stuck in a weird state where they're mounted in some namespaces, but not others. This should be the default in Debian tho. - If flatpak'd Firefox has ugly bitmap fonts, follow this workaround
Anyway, this is just my experience running Flatapk in Void, hopefully it works smoother for you on Debian.
Just use the Mozilla .deb
I don't have issues yet on stable 12.5 but I plan to switch to nixos eventually.
Sounds like you need to be using slackware.
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.