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This computer is running Debian 12 (GNOME) and as soon as a USB thumb drive is connected it shows up in Files and its filesystem is automatically mounted at /media/<username>/<name>
"<name>" is the UUID or a name given to the partition.
Example:

$ lsblk -f /dev/sdb1
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sdb1 vfat FAT16 43EF-2C02 62,3M 0% /media/<username>/43EF-2C02

I have done absolutely nothing for this to work.

I think you misunderstood what "pbear" wrote. It has nothing to do with Debian Linux.
The problem is "Fast Startup" in Windows. When this feature is enabled, Windows does not really shut down but more or less simply hibernate, thus still having its NTFS partitions mounted. This might lead to Linux being unable to mount.
Just search for "Windows Fast Startup" and you will see how to disable it.

FWIW: I am writing this on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (1. gen) from 2012.
It has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3427U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 8 GB RAM and Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000.

It is comfortably running Fedora Silverblue, which means GNOME DE and most applications installed as flatpaks.
Using it mostly for testing different Linux distributions in VMs created in GNOME Boxes.
Works very well.

You might want to check your "/etc/hosts" file to ensure that it contains a line with the correct hostname, like this: If the line is missing, at least some flatpaks open very slowly, Firefox being one.

Unless you have already done so, I really think you should familiarize with openSUSE Aeon (currently RC2) and Fedora Silverblue.
Especially the openSUSE offering seems to be able to take care of itself once installed.

I have been running Fedora Silverblue on one of my laptops for a couple of years now and it works very well. It does require some manual work when upgrading to a new version. openSUSE Aeon, on the other hand, is a rolling distribution.

I don't think you should use the name "VirtMan". The proper name is either "Virtual Machine Manager" or "virt-manager".
If you do a search for "VirtMan" you will see that it is something else.

svc wrote: 2024-02-26 12:54 What am I missing?

I guess you are missing "non-free".

I was simply hoping that you could set the correct keyboard using "localectl" with a combination of model, layout and variant without having to make any manual customizations.
I cannot help you. Sorry!

From "man keyboard":
In Debian systems the default keyboard layout is described in /etc/default/keyboard and it is shared between X and the console.

You can only use the "localectl" with the x11 subcommands, e.g.

localectl list-x11-keymap-layouts
localectl list-x11-keymap-models
localectl list-x11-keymap-variants

If you use the corresponding "set-x11-keymap" it will update file "/etc/default/keyboard".

I guess you should undo the customizations you made to "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pt".

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I had a similar problem some years ago.
It turned out that the monitor did not receive a signal until the 5 seconds in GRUB_TIMEOUT had passed.
I changed GRUB_TIMEOUT to 15 seconds which made the GRUB menu visible for the last few seconds of the 15.
You could try the same workaround.

How do I track down which is this other service/process that initialises zram? I would prefer systemd to assume responsibility over the service, but I'm also happy as long as zram is configured and running as intended.

As far as I know Debian has two packages that makes configuring swap on a zram device fairly easy.
They are "zram-tools" and "systemd-zram-generator".
You should probably check that you have only one installed.

Personally, I have always used "systemd-zram-generator". It is ...

I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen 1 like yours.
This old laptop is unfortunately not supported through "fwupd".
You can update the BIOS/UEFI using the "geteltorito" method.


Download the Bootable CD iso: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/g6uj32us.iso
Extract image from the iso:

$ geteltorito -o g6uj32us.img g6uj32us.iso

Copy .img file to USB stick using dd.
Boot laptop from USB stick.
Note: USB stick can probably only boot in CSM/Legacy mode.
Follow instructions displayed on ...

audiolover wrote: 2023-12-04 17:34 What is the advantage of this?

The advantage is that the NFS share is not mounted at boot but only when actually used, then unmounted again when not used for 30 seconds.
By the way: You can leave out options "defaults" and "noauto". They are not necessary.

You should read:

If you look at you will see that NFS (probably) only supports NFS protocol version 3, 4.0, 4.1 or 4.2.
You have not told us what your NFS server is.
You may want to check that it supports one of the protocol versions mentioned above.

I have gh installed via apt... but flatpak is referencing com.github...

That is simply part of the flatpak name and has nothing to do with its location.
You are trying to install two flatpaks named

com.github.PopoutApps.popout3d
org.remmina.Remmina

Both are located at https://flathub.org together with the runtimes, they depend on.

So, any flatpak (app or runtime) you install will be installed from https://flathub.org and not from GitHub.
May I suggest you read https://docs.flatpak.org ...

As I understand it:
What a normal user can do system-wide (no option "--user") with command "flatpak" depends on two things:

Is the user a member of group "sudo"
The contents of file "/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.rules"

If the user is a member of group "sudo", certain system-wide flatpak subcommands can be run as that user (without using "sudo").
For example installing a flatpak and uninstalling a flatpak.
Adding a repository is not one of them. In this case command ...

I have an old Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (1. gen) and will just mention that the way to wake this one from suspend is to press the power button, but only using a short press, not holding the button to power off the computer. No other button seems to work.

Scenario:

A Debian 12 (GNOME) system booted to "graphical.target".
User "joe" logs in.
User "root" adds "joe" to group "games".
User "joe" logs out and logs in again.


Now, I thought it would be enough for "joe" to logout/login to actually use his new group membership.
That, however, does not seem to be the case.
After logout/login neither command "id" nor command "groups" shows "games" as one of the groups of which "joe" is a member. Adding the username to the commands (e.g. "id joe ...

Package "ncal" provides both "ncal" and "cal":
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/ncal