[kwlug-disc] Debian "testing" -- not bad

[William Park]

I can't believe this!  The only distro that can install on my machine is 
*Fedora*.  I tried

    Kubuntu 25.10
    Linux Mint 22.2
    LMDE 7
    Debian 13.2
    Cachy OS
    Manjaro
    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

They all recognize the hardwares, and install goes okay.  But, at the 
end, they all fail on "loading grub bootloader" part.  My current 
machine is UEFI, so I was careful to select UEFI side of any ISO.  So, 
it's not EFI vs MBR thing.

This is my current setup:

  * */dev/sda* -- Slackware
  * */dev/sd[bcdefgh]* -- harddisks used for backup snapshots in BTRFS
    filesystem.
  * */dev/sdi* -- This is where I want to install the new distro.  It
    can do whatever it wants on this disk.  I'll select which one to
    boot, from Motherboard's UEFI boot selection.

I will be dual booting for awhile.  Slackware for existing simple tasks, 
like emails and web.  Fedora for new tasks.  I still can't believe it...


On 2025-12-27 02:16, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> (Double posted, so reply to your list)
>
> I've been looking for a distro with recent KDE and recent kerne*l*. 
> So, the benchmark was *Kubuntu* 25.10 (v6.4 KDE, v6.17 kernel).
>
> 1. Started with *Mint* + "apt install kde-full".  Result was 
> comparable to Kubuntu LTS, ie. v5.27 KDE, v6.14 kernel.  Makes sense, 
> since Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS.
>
> 2. Then, tried *LMDE* + "apt install kde-full".  I was surprised to 
> get a rather recent v6.3 KDE with v6.12 kernel.  I was expecting an 
> old KDE, even older than Mint version.
>
> 3. So, decided to try *Debian* *testing* + KDE.  I got v6.5.4 KDE 
> (latest) and v6.17.12 kernel.  Not bad.
>
> Right now, *Debian testing* is compiling v6.12.62 and v6.18.1 kernels 
> for Raspberry Pi Zero 2W.  We'll see how it goes.
>
> To those using Debian testing, how would you rate its stability? Is it 
> suitable for daily PC?
>
> _______________________________________________
> kwlug-disc mailing list
> To unsubscribe, send an email tokwlug-disc-leave at kwlug.org
> with the subject "unsubscribe", or email
> kwlug-disc-owner at kwlug.org to contact a human being.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20251229/df245239/attachment.htm>