Debian Stable: Fresh Kernel and the AUR!

[@Alex-sn4ql]

Another great video Stephen - well prepared, well presented. What a great idea with the distrobox integration from the AUR.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Cheers!

[@pwnhun73r]

Amazing combination between Stable and updated!! Long Life Debian!!!!!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Using Stable on my servers for years - it just works!

[@MrWarneet]

Often thought of doing this but the researching and testing headache... another great tutorial, many thanks.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Absolutely, cheers!

[@angelarturokooistra7671]

I am pretty new with GNU/Linux. Though not completely unknown with it as I have tried it in the past in 2007 (I was 13) but it was a bit to complicated back then due to my age and the lack of propper English. Now I am experimenting with repositories to make the best experience for my self. Bit having a container like you is even a better idea. Thanks man. I have subscribed so I may see some more tutorials of you. Smaller channels seem to deliver clearance in their instructions. And I prefer that. Have a good day

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Excellent, and thanks for sharing and watching! :)

[@Ajay-pf6bv]

Ha, the first one to like and comment... Awesome, man! Really appreciated. Many, many thanks!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

You rock! Glad you like it!

[@eznix]

Excellent video. Thanks for the super clear demonstration. I doubt I would mix Arch into Debian, but it's handy to see how easily it can be done. 🙂

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!

[@jesse7631]

I love your videos Stephen, they never disappoint!!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks for the feedback Jesse! :)

[@RichardMaco00]

Didn't know about distrobox, nice piece of software. Also, since I am new to the channel, very clear and concise style of presentation. Keep going!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks, and welcome!

[@markfive6836]

Great presentation, Stephen. Thank you. Especially for your Distrobox install instructions. I'm thinking of installing Spirallinux so I can get the newer kernel, zram swap, and in addition btrfs backup easily.

[@peppe540]

Just did that last Saturday, recommended!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

You are very welcome!

[@hooflung128]

Thanks for this. Such an awesome guide. Subscribed!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Awesome, thank you!

[@neotwenty-nineBzH]

Amazing video. I learnt a lot even as Arch user.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Great to hear! Cheers!

[@micleh]

Awesome. I'd never have imagined that setting this up would be so simple - of course, your admirable instructions provided. I'm new to your channel and I'll be looking for videos on containers, virtualization and the like. Hopefully, I'll find an in-depth docker tutorial.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks for watching!

[@airbossone]

Thanks Stephen, that was great I learned a lot. Take care.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks, you too!

[@peppe540]

Great one, Stephen, thanks. Must be a coincidence I am just testdriving SpiralLinux with Debian Testing (and KDE 5.25). Indeed stability plus the latest software also. But I'll be trying out this Arch container approach as well, nice to learn!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

"With Linux, anything is possible!" I should check out SpiralLinux again...

[@wildmanjeff42]

Great video ! thanks

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Glad you liked it!

[@evelynescalona7267]

wow !! best tutorial

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Glad you think so!

[@virgildanica2372]

Thanks for the vídeo 🥴🤐🙏🏻🙏🏽

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Any time!

[@mickz18]

great video!!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thank you!!

[@seanpaul7069]

I never heard of Distrobox. This is such a powerful tool and thanks for demonstrating. Quick question: I also faced an issue with Grub on my Arch and lost 2 days trying to fix (2-4 hrs) and thinking to switch to Debian stable since I can’t babysit my OS. I need it to work as intended. Do you recommend Debian stable for someone who doesn’t care or need the latest or greatest packages? Is it recommended to upgrade or do a clean install whenever Debian 12 is released? Thank you

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Sorry to hear about that! Debian Stable has yet to let me down - might be a worthy candidate for you. :) Traditionally, I just clean install a new release and restore data from backups when the current one no longer receives security patches...

[@seanpaul7069]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 thank you for the suggestions:) Have a great day!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

You too, and good luck!

[@tonycipto5349]

Great video, Stephen. I've question, does the distrobox act like virtual machine?

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Hi Tony, what's great about distrobox software containers (front end for Docker or Podman) is they use far fewer resources/overhead than VMs. They share the same running kernel in this video's case, so basically everything runs at native speed in a separate userland sandbox.

[@pfv3462]

Great video, Stephen. I've question, how can i safely change a linux mint installation that is in dualboot with windows 10 to debian without destroying the grub? Windows and Linux are on separate drives.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Assuming you have *everything important* safely backed up, I believe it should be possible! Good luck to you!

[@TotusEius]

Great video! Is it possible to go from a VM to a live iso/installation?

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Glad you like it! I have yet to try this myself, but I would first look at github.com/MX-Linux/lum-qt-appimage Maybe it will work for building a live iso from an existing installation?

[@ogis]

Distrobox....maybe this is fun and interesting, but...isolation and sandboxing is not the main aim of this project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drives and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a flatpak.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks for sharing! :D

[@korychiu4173]

Is it possible to install Windows Managers like GNOME 42 using arch container as well ?

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Maybe! Take a look at: github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/run_latest_gnome_kde_on_distrobox.md Good luck!

[@korychiu4173]

The mix Linux time comes ~

[@kalulugamer]

Showing love here,, liked and subscribing. Can you do more about MicroOS. If only your bandwidth permits it. Thanks

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Merci, and will put it on my list!

[@volosnesqui9410]

its there any tutorial about things to do after install NixOs? thanks

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Not yet!

[@volosnesqui9410]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 please let us know!!! Thanks

[@pbezunartea]

I have one question about your SWAP configuration. AFAIK, the purpose of the SWAP space is to store inactive parts of the RAM to disk. If you use a RAM disk for this, doesn't that defeat its whole purpose? ... you're using a RAM disk to store parts of the RAM that are inactive, wouldn't eliminating the SWAP altogether accomplish the same thing?

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Swap is on ZRAM here - compressed. On modern processors, much faster and easy on the SSDs. :)

[@menzokruizinga]

Will this work on Ubuntu unity 22.04

[@akashsahu933]

why not

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Distrobox and Flatpak work fine on most distros.

[@menzokruizinga]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 thanks for the info

[@joaomachado9105]

linux is crazy xD

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Full of possibilities! :)

[@fuseteam]

Stable doesn't mean 'doesn't break' the word your looking for is 'reliable' xd

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Flatpak and Distrobox are in userland, hence won't break the system. ;)

[@fuseteam]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 i know xd that called a 'reliable' system, stable actually means that the system doesn't change often ;) Which is why debian is usually so 'old' xd

[@АлексейШилин-д1ф]

You should *not* use Live images for installing Debian! They contain a huge amount of packages which you will never ever need, like all the localisations available, fonts to support them etc. - overall a couple gigabytes of useless junk unless you speak all the languages in the world. Always use plain netinst or DVD images for installation.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks for sharing, please be sure to let the Debian team know! :)

[@BrK0511]

"Is it even possible? Run a fresh mainline kernel and set up access to the full Arch User Repository on a rock solid, stable Debian installation!" Yes, but it becomes not so stable anymore.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

The backported kernel is official and stable. A podman container doesn’t affect the overall system stability since it doesn’t run as root but as a regular user. Sorry. ;)