After around 25 months of development, Debian has now released the next stable version Debian 10 "Buster" which will be supported for five years. In this release GNOME now defaults to using Wayland instead of Xorg, the AppArmor kernel security module is enabled by default and it's powered by the Linux 4.19 kernel.
For those who don't like to live on the edge, Debian is a good choice for having a solid computing experience with Linux. Debian 10 comes with these available desktops:
- Cinnamon 3.8
- GNOME 3.30
- KDE Plasma 5.14
- LXDE 0.99.2
- LXQt 0.14
- MATE 1.20
- Xfce 4.12
Like other distributions, you don't need to install Debian right away. It has a "live" image you can stick on a USB, to test it without making any changes on your computer.
For those unaware, Debian is what both Ubuntu (so also Mint, elementary OS, KDE neon and many more) and SteamOS base themselves upon, so the work that goes into Debian affects a great many other distributions.
If you're not upgrading right away, rest assured that Debian 9 "Stretch" is still supported and will continue to be for 12 months with the Debian Security Team, after which it will be handed over to the Debian LTS team.
See their official news post here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Awesome.
(Just a speculation, for now...)
Quoting: ThormackThe new Steam officially supported distro just launched.
Awesome.
(Just a speculation, for now...)
Nah, I don't think so.
There's a lot things to do after the installation. IMO they will support a more friendly distro, preferably with a corporation behind, like OpenSUSE or Fedora
Maybe they create a new distro for desktop use based on Debian.
Their downloads pages could be better organized though. It was difficult for me to find the Bittorrent options of various builds when I knew they existed. What if you didn't know?
Last edited by 14 on 7 July 2019 at 11:21 am UTC
wvstolzing Jul 7, 2019
Also, Buster supports php 7.3, which the latest Nextcloud release (16) requires. I couldn't get the Talk app to work on older Nextcloud versions; so if you're interested in hosting 'your own skype' on Debian, that's also a very significant update.
Quoting: fagnerlnQuoting: ThormackThe new Steam officially supported distro just launched.
Awesome.
(Just a speculation, for now...)
Nah, I don't think so.
There's a lot things to do after the installation. IMO they will support a more friendly distro, preferably with a corporation behind, like OpenSUSE or Fedora
Maybe they create a new distro for desktop use based on Debian.
I don't see where people get the impression that Ubuntu is more 'user friendly'. Nothing says that better than their python based installer that regularly crashes at the partitioning step with a bunch of exceptions that are surely easier to read for the average user than plain language.
wvstolzing Jul 7, 2019
Quoting: dvdNothing says that better than their python based installer that regularly crashes at the partitioning step with a bunch of exceptions that are surely easier to read for the average user than plain language.
Absolutely. That was one reason I got soured on Ubuntu very early on.
Quoting: dvdQuoting: fagnerlnQuoting: ThormackThe new Steam officially supported distro just launched.
Awesome.
(Just a speculation, for now...)
Nah, I don't think so.
There's a lot things to do after the installation. IMO they will support a more friendly distro, preferably with a corporation behind, like OpenSUSE or Fedora
Maybe they create a new distro for desktop use based on Debian.
I don't see where people get the impression that Ubuntu is more 'user friendly'. Nothing says that better than their python based installer that regularly crashes at the partitioning step with a bunch of exceptions that are surely easier to read for the average user than plain language.
Because the average used does not use whatever advanced setting that you are using that are causing those crashes. They will simply click "next" all the way. And once they have done so they will have a fully working desktop, and if they need further customization or changes then the Internet is full of blogs and nice looking guides for how to do this in Ubuntu.
That is why.
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