The First 12 Essential Tweaks After Installing Debian 12
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- Debian 12 codenamed "Bookworm" is AWESOME! If you're the proud owner of a brand new Debian install, then this is the video for you! We'll go over 12 things you should consider implementing in Debian 12, from productivity apps to gaming. This is definitely a can't-miss video for Debian fans!
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00:00 - Intro
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02:11 - Tweak 1: Install Updates
04:26 - Tweak 2: Enable Flatpak
12:10 - Tweak 3: Install (normal) Firefox
17:08 - Tweak 4: Install Thunderbird
19:28 - Tweak 5: Install Google Chrome
23:27 - Tweak 6: Upgrade to a more recent version of LibreOffice
28:15 - Tweak 7: Add another desktop environment
30:52 - Tweak 8: Install the Nvidia driver (if necessary)
34:36 - Tweak 9: Install Steam
36:31 - Tweak 10: Add multimedia codecs & install VLC
38:56 - Tweak 11: Add the "back ports" repository
42:13 - Tweak 12: Install the Synaptic package manager
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Thank you for this clear and concise tutorial. I have been using Debian bookworm testing for a while and liked it. So when this official stable version was released I had to install it. I love how we no longer have to search for non-free ISOs with this new realse. I appreciate all your vids, the way you pause to give us time to see what you've written in the terminal is excellent! Thanks again for all that you do!
Thank you! You are an amazing instructor. This was an exceptional tutorial! Not only do you provide the 'how' but you give us the 'why'. So many instructors leave that out.
With Debian + Flatpak + non free firmware i don't see the point of install a debian derivative like Ubuntu
non free is not necessary in most cases
Also ubuntu is so unstable it makes you hate linux...
@@sixdroidnecessary for nvidia users
@@sale666No. Not true at all. Let us not be unreasonable and sensational just to bash something.
@@albussd honestly I was using Ubuntu but I only switched to Debian when my sound drivers didn't work. And Debian is more staple than Ubuntu it is just a fact
A little side-note on removing libreoffice in it's entirety: iof you type 'sudo apt remove libreoffic*', it will list all the pieces that it is about to remove. Much shorter than the entire list.
This was helpful as there was no reference to the removing of LibreOffice in the blog post that Jay mentions in the vid (@LearnLinuxTV)
Addition: “sudo apt autoremove libreoffice” is even better because it will also remove dependent packages that are not in ure elsewhere.
0:20 0:31
@@GerardWassinkthat was helpful
@@marjiram7709 ????
My favorite distro! Can't wait to upgrade to Debian 12 now that it is released and stable. Thanks my friend for all you do here. Love your content! ❣
12 days ago you posted this 12 things to do in Debian 12 and I started watching this at 12pm. Weird lol. Thanks for the video!!
Excellent tutorial, thank you! There are a couple of things about synaptic that you may want to add...
1. After installing synaptic, install apt-xapian-index, then restart X (or reboot). Open synaptic and you'll have a quick filter field in the menu bar. Type in your search term (you might also want to select All on the left), hit Enter and it will bring up packages where the search string is found. It's probably trivial but now you don't have to open the search window. YMMV but I find it to be a lot more convenient.
2. You can click on the Packages header and toggle between ascending- and descending-sort. Makes it much easier to find what you're looking for.
Thanks Jay for yet another nice tutorial!
Looking forward to future flatpak videos on this channel! Flatpaks seem cool but they clearly have a bit of a learning curve
Yeah I’m curious about the system vs user flatpak situation since after watching the bash series I wanted to make a script to install everything I need but want to do it properly.
This was an awesome video. Much appreciated.
thank you sir
your videos are really helpful
This is so helpful, and makes a lot of things clear
Thanks a lot for your video, so useful!
Awesome help with plenty of detail . It's hard to find help of this quality . Thank you !
Switching from OpenSuse Tumbleweed to Debian 12 now, giving this a rewatch before pulling the trigger!
Another thing among the first things 'to-do' is to set up and configure a virt environment for running non-distro python software packages, as this is now a requirement with the Bookworm release.
Strangely most linux youtubers miss out on that.
Link to this being official and not just your opinion
This is great news. Hopefully Jay will write a Debian Server book. His Ubuntu Server books are excellent and I think the community would benefit from a well written guide to Debian Server.
Frozen Bubble is addicting!
FYI Installing Debian 12 from the Live Environment sets up sudo automatically but if you use the Debian Installer from the GRUB menu it only sets su. If you only have su you can still authenticate then issue sudo commands until you exit su; you can also change your account type from standard to Administrator and after logging out and back in or rebooting you can now use sudo (settings > users > your user profile). Have verified this with Debian 12 Cinnamon and KDE Plasma desktop environments.
You can install downloaded deb packages with gdebi by double clicking the package or right clicking and select open with then picking gdebi; all packages installed with gdebi can be found (normally) in the '/opt' directory.
You can clean up your system after a package removal with 'sudo apt autoremove' for a dust free Debian.
Awesome video BTW! It was nice to see you so happy.
Kind of stoked about Debian finally touching down; have been waiting two decades for Debian to make a splash and it's finally happened.
It's the satisfying sounds.
@@wayland7150 The music is hypnotizing. Nothing audible is obnoxious - totally agree. The tunes of the game are a big draw for me as well. 👍
For those who are having issues with Nvidia, my laptop was very old and I had to enable Non-free repositories and enable them in the terminal, and then use the sudo nvidia-detect command to find which card I had and what driver was recommended for me. the reason I say this is because following the method shown in the video led me to have no GPU shown within Nvidia X server settings. Now, I am able to because I had to install the Tesla 470 driver. Just a heads up! Might save you all a bit of pain that I had to go through...
I got so many ACPI errors at start but it seems not affecting the running of the system after installing Nvidia driver. Any ideas?
It's not just Nvidia, my new AMD rig is unusable with Debian. I think 8 was the last version I was able to install without issue. Between the failures related to missing drivers (because it's better to be "pure" than to actually be functional), the installer failing to set the boot partition as being actually bootable, and now using a failing video driver - Debian is junk. Hopefully by the time 13 is out it will be at least as good as Ubuntu, Fedora, or even OpenSUSE.
very good work you are doing bro
Excellent work!
Very cool. Thank you!
Great tutorial!!!
Great work 😊😊😊😊
Thank you for the video
Thank as New Linux user this was a God send adding the extra software repository and desktop easy to follow 😊❤
great video! thank you
Thanks a lot! ❤
awesome video thanks for sharing
It all worked ... Amazing !
I was struggling so hard to install the propreitary nvidia drivers but you made it so easy. you got a fan for life now that was life saving!
=\ any reason to not install chrome thru the software app now that I have flatpak added?
I am going to try Dibian 12 soon, that's why I'm here, very clear and straight forward for our new to linux user, I've always want to learn how to add extra repository in linux, the way you gave true to life example just excellent, Thanks
Great guide!
Very helpful video. I just started with Linux and was using Mint, but I moved to Debian since I will only be using Linux for certain things and I want a stable platform. Your video was more helpful than most of what's out there. I subscribed. Thanks.
My experience with steam on debian 12 is that debian has an "installer" that will install steam, but steam installs the latest version directly from steam, not a debian repo. And steam then keeps itself updated independent of debian repos.
So its a snap pack? And how do steam games run with proton mode enabled?
@@cssplayer91 It's not a snap, Steam ships its own native Linux binaries and libraries for itself and games to use. Once you enable it in settings, Proton support should work out of the box.
@@koye4427it's steam native vs steam runtime
That how steam always has been.
@@cssplayer91 No, it's a deb package through apt. It's just not the actual client. It's an installer that runs and installs the full program from steam. That way debian doesn't have to keep up with every new version of steam. They just give you a way to install it and then steam keeps it up to date.
Muito obrigado. Foi uma grande ajuda. Você tem feito um ótimo trabalho.
Thank you for your video
Amazing news. As a long time debian as primary OS user. I like these news. Debian is by far the best piece of softare i have used. I have zero issiues ever. I use stable apps on it. On workstation I use gnome, on laptop KDE ... all works seemless. Completely uneventfull and pleasureable experience. Hearing its has gotten better is hard to beleive but good to hear.
I do not tend to upgrade that soon (workstation is still on buster, and laptop on bullseye) ... but this one sounds like a moment I should do that. Have fun with your transition ... I expect you will use it long time.
Doesnt 'apt dist-upgrade' upgrade packages for the latest repo based on the version defined in the apt config, not the current distro version? Shouldnt this be 'apt upgrade' unless you are in the process of moving to testing/unstable distros?
Thank you so much. Having been in windows or Mac since Solaris 7, it was daunting trying to return to linux, this was clear and well paced, giving me a nice desktop in the process.
another excellent video. Thank You!
Great idea J to talk about after installation tweaks
Best Frozen Bubble video I've ever seen thanks
Thanks Man
I like the idea of stability and would always choose it over instability with rolling releases - I had a miserable time with Manjaro for example - but at the same time a distro that releases with applications that even the application's devs recommend updating (Libre Office) seems a bit absurdly over cautious?
Or is it more about lack of organsation? If the latter that's perhaps a bit more worrying as I wonder what else they might have missed, at least on the desktop as I'd assume most of the testing and double-checking is aimed at Debian server?
Would it be fair to say that Linux Mint is a better balance between being stable and reasomably up to date? Any downsides compared to Debian and just adding what you need as per Jay's tutorial?
it took me a while but i finally found a proper tutorial on installing the nvidia driver, thank you sir, you earned a subscriber (new linux user btw)
for whatever reason every single tutorial out there that i found just doesnt mention having to tick those two options in the gnome apps store
Thanks!
Thanks for this, from a recent subscriber and relative Linux noob! As I'm planning on shifting multiple small household servers over to Debian 12, my big question is about remote management, as I'm having trouble with figuring out how to deal with Wayland and VNC. Have you done, or do you plan a video on making that shift? Despite having turned on Gnome Remote Desktop, I've been, as yet, unable to get these connections happening from my Mac desktop (which is where I primarily work).
thans for the info .... .:)
👍Thanks!
Great video! Regarding backports, I thought this would also be indicated in synaptic for the package as second option if I recall correctly. Where I had issues though was on installing firefox from flatpak that it crashed randomly. Found out that Firefox has hardware accelaration enabled by default however the flatpak config had it disabled. Enabled it in flatseal and problems gone. Other option is ofcourse to disable it in Firefox itself. This might be helpful for others running into the same issue.
TYVM
I like this channel, reminds me of Wizard car mechanic. Such a peaceful way to talk :)
Excellent, clear presentation.Based on your prev video and my desire to switch distros I've jumped in to Deb 12, and...... I'm annoyed. It's Linux and and I'll get everything working, but I'm annoyed there are so many small bits missing out of the box e.g. min/max icons need to be added through the tweak tool, not Settings and I've had to install a package to get autocomplete working for sudo commands. I could go on for pages but hey-ho I'll get there. This is the wife's laptop and most importantly I got Dungeon Keeper II working, which can be tricky, so fairs fair! For me, I'm keeping my main machine on Garuda Linux. Keep the videos coming!
I'm on LMDE 5 and am seriously considering going back to Debian. The 12 release looks awesome, wasn't a big fan of the 11 release with the outdated GNOME desktop.
I'm glad I found this video. I just installed Debian on a new computer. My aspect ration was set to 4:3 even though I have a 16:9 monitor. It turns out I just needed to install the Nvidia drivers.
Is there an upgrade tool on Debian to upgrade between major versions? Or do you have to reinstall every time?
thank you extremely useful
Glad to hear that!
Just downloaded Debian 12 bookworm as a new user. Your vid helped me walk through setup with minor hiccups. Only lingering question is on adding the backport repository. Don't yet know how to use the clipboard so I could not complete this task. Great video.
@LearnLinuxTV Don't forget to make a video on keeping flatpak programs up to date like for security updates, as apt-get update and apt-get upgrade won't update flatpak programs at default when initialized.
sudo flatpak update
omg thank you
Thank you so much! Saved me from headaches and sleepless nights. Almost wiped Debian and installed Windows back on this system. In my mind I made it so much more complicated that it really was. 👍
I had to install VLC in flatpak because the VLC version from Debian repositories doesn't work with RTSP streams.
This is a fantastic video! It's helped to give me a refresher on Linux, also this stable ol' grandad Debian, now having the Flatpaks would make this a great combination as a daily driver desktop system with its non free improvements.
I would certainly look forward to a Backports explainer video like this in the future.
Also wondering if Debian will become even more popular now RHEL have restricted its source code to it's downstream rebuilders, like Alma & Rocky, be interesting to see what will happen with this news?
Thanks 👍
Kinda sad there is no Debian sticker on that laptop🙄- great video - thanks for all you do! I always install just XFCE4 desktop and always have to add my user to the sudo list as one of my first things - really surprised the Gnome or Desktop does it automatically? have to agree 100% this is by far the best Debian XFCE4 i've experienced this far, very clean, simple install and everything just worked. Thanks again
really great, I am enjoying debian 12. feels way more smooth that my last distro lmde
Thanks for the video. Perhaps I missed it, but did you show the command apt autoremove?
Thanks for this and your many good and in-depth tutorials. I have learned a lot. I have installed Debian 12 on a MacBook pro from 2010. Works everything - except Wifi - very, very well. I just can't find a solution for it unfortunately. Any tip for me on how to turn on wifi? Thank you very much!
Great job on this. I'd love to see a video on how to get Guacamole working on Linux and Windows. Trying to get setup for my parents sake because they always need help. Every video I've seen about it is very convoluted and you need to learn 3 other programs or sign up for something elsewhere.
39.45 you said save the file?
How did you save the file, what did you do to save it?
Love your work. Have followed the advice for installing the new Firefox to the new flatpak version, but can't install gnome shell extensions on Firefox as only to be told "No such native application org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell" set up and configure a virt environment for running non-distro python software packages, though this may be fixed with chrome but would like to stay with Firefox as it has worked with it in the past?
Thanks for showing the Nvidia driver install! If I ever need to switch to regular Debian with GNOME I’ll reference this.
Thank you. I started with Debian years ago (4 floppy disk install) in a commercial environment and I got into using other distributions, The one I am using now irritates me a bit from their last upgrade. I have to admit I whined a bit about Debian as well because it was so conservative but I loved that it was so rock solid stable. I have to admit I know nothing about Flatpacks, so I have a bit of a learning curve.
hello, i like what you do. your terminal is looks good. how did you make your terminal titlebar dark, i have been trying to change mine by accessing editing background on gtk.css file but it wasn't appealing. please share any info
I know this is an older video, but, re: thunderbird vs evolution, not only does evolution work better in exchange server environments, but it also correctly authenticates with apple services for mail/reminders/calendars, and is the only linux client i've found that will do this.
The only down side I have found id the Gnome package manager is not very stable, but of course you can use the KDE one, or the command line tools. Just as a personal comment I would add #13 my user to the sudoers group so you can use sudo and not have to go to root.
when I install app from flatpak it does not show up in the app dwawer. How can I open it?
Not sure anyone can help but I got an error installing flatpak: "/root/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share' is not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the
session is restarted." I rebooted but no help. I googled it but couldn't find any help I could understand.
I am a long time Debian user, but the info on changing desktop environments and flatpaks was quite useful. I think flatpaks will be great for getting up to date software without constantly updating the whole system. You use the terminal enough you consider putting on the dock.
It's interesting how some software like Libre Office benefits from being very up to date where as a text editor is probably better if it never changes. It's a shame that so many tweaks are needed to get Debian 12 into shape. I feel that Mint requires none of these. I will be installing this today and trying Plasma Wayland.
@@wayland7150 While true, Debian is a distro you setup once and then run it for at least 2 years before upgrading, so setting it up isn't a big deal long term IMHO.
Just installed debian on my laptop yesterday. I loved the fact that it lets you choose the DE instead of a pre configured option. I tried switching on kubuntu once and it was a mess. Uninstalling kde fucked up all sorts of things and i had to reinstall the whole OS. Ill admit i lacked the knowledge to fix it, but having a choice out of the gate is sweet, specially when you can just toggle your option and its ready to go.
In my own experience, at least, having multiple DEs is not a good idea; I have never been able to get it to work without problems on real hardware. Just because you CAN do something does not mean you SHOULD. Better to carefully choose one DE you like, and then stick with it. Deb 12 was no different; I tried installing a second DE (LXQt), using tasksel just as Jay suggested, and it had so many problems I had to back it out. Fortunately, the original DE (Cinnamon) still works.
@@jamespleger752 yep, totally agree. Now if i wanna test some other DE, i’ll install a new OS on a different drive and go from there. I guess i learnt it the hard way hehe
you installed kubuntu then Uninstalled kde? lol
Since when do updates require a restart? Unless you're updating the kernel.
I put this on a VM yesterday, but couldnt get xe-guest-tools installed from the XCP-NG tools, and didnt find it in the repo, am I doing something wrong?
You mentioned (and demonstrated) a Gnome extension for flathub. Is there an extension for Plasma?
what scren recorder you use on DEBIAN ? can you make a video about it and the recomended configuration for that ?
The running theme here: Debian 12 is an excellent version that solves so many of their long-running problems with hardware support out of the box, and you can seriously use it as a daily driver - but also, you should absolutely replace as many of the graphical user programs as you can with the Flatpak versions. Let each part be true to itself, Debian as your core OS and Flathub as your applications source.
isn't the flatpack version much slower?
I think that overlooks a great deal of the actual point of Debian stable. If I had $1 for every CZcamsr who understood what "stable" means in a software setting, I couldn't get myself a cup of coffee.
a coffee machine maybe...@@jr2375
I will go back to this video when I'll be on Debian 12.
thank you for this video, I tried Debian 12 Gnome but I'm a little confused. (I'm a Mac user)
I wanted to know if it is possible to activate mouse button number 3 for an action, for example to make activities appear. I find it not practical to go to the top left each time with the mouse or to press the keyboard.
Also, if it is possible to have the right button menu on the desktop? for example to create a directory or a text file?
I haven't been able to minimize the application windows, like Firefox etc. in the bar at the top.
Visually I really like Gnome, Thanks
Does the NVIDIA driver install also add i386 libs, often required by steam? Or do you have to set the alternate architecture?
Awesome and helpful video!
Not sure if due to dual booting, laptop manufacturer (asus), gpu (nvidia 2060-q), but my debian 12 kde plasma had a hard time recognizing the nvidia driver as installed. Running nvidia-smi, I could see it downloaded and installed, but not active. The nvidia app wouldn't recognized the gpu, after following all of the steps you had shared here.
After much researching online, I followed the recommendation to disable safe boot of my laptop, and then it worked. gpu is fully recognized and utilized (tested steam games and get about same performance as in windows 10). Now am struggling to configure options for power plans and gpu profiles which don't show up anywhere. If you could make a video or share recommendations, I will greatly appreciate it.
And am happily following the channel as a new subscriber :D
Hi. Thanks for your videos. Will it be possible to update the future KDE desktop environment on debian 12 or we need to wait for debian 13?
Yes, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade. Type apt, apt-get on terminal or man apt, man apt-get.
Since this is also a channel for SysAdmins, here a small please about switching to root:
Please use "sudo -s" instead of "su - root", "su" or "su root" and set up the logging properly.
The reason for that is simple, "sudo -s" can be configured to log who did which commands and when. The others don't.
So when you work together as a team of SysAdmins, you can look up who did what as root without any downside besides that the logfiles could become quite large. You can even let it log the inputs and outputs of each command.
Awesome videos. There's an issue with Firefox in debian that can be experienced if you use a touchscreen. That is Firefox cannot be dragged or resized using the screen touch. This happens with any versions of Firefox, and it only happens in Debian. I installed Fedore 38 and do not experience the issue. Hopefully someone will come up with a workaround.
Super .Merci. When I 'm sure to configure properly my printer L3150 series with Debian12 , I will perhaps switch from my FedoraWorkstation to it although Fedora is great , but I'm a little bit tired of upgrading kernel almost every day.
How to know what component pc part debian didn’t recognize and install the driver we need ?
Hi is it possible to upgrade Debian 12 to Gnome 44?
It's a simple variable export to make Firefox run under Wayland and not XWayland (which you should do anyway for performance sake). You can even do it so that it falls back to X11 if you ever switch to it at any time. Don't know why this isn't the default yet.
Indeed. One of the first things I do is pop MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 into /etc/environment to stop the xwayland stupidness.
Thanks a lot, I'm newbie and didn't know this. Ram usage of firefox decreased significantly.
@@satysin630 You can also do it in ~/.profile to avoid doing things as root.
Thanks! I just moved from Windows 11 (crap) to Debian 12 (sweet) and this helped a lot
Jay, What?! You introduced ME to Pop Os and now you're going to Bookworm ? I feel anxious . xD
Is it possible to move the dash from the bottom of the screen to the side?
Nice tutorial. What font do you use in terminal?