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Great advice!

Can anyone suggest a battle-tested, either paid or open source, GUI-based application or suite that protects against and removes viruses, malware and ransomware.

It should not be bloated and be something known to run on Debian Bookworm. I don't need real-time protection as I only run trusted code.

I'm not even sure such an application exists. Sophos used to have something, but they seem to be focusing on other platforms these days.

I have ClamAV and ClamTK. ClamAV but I get a lot of false ...

Greetings Docteur,

As a refugee who has made my home in Guadeloupe without speaking French, I feel very out of touch in the technology world. Your English is excellent and I was particularly impressed with your choice of words.

Your post is heartwarming, and I will get to the replies as time permits.
I have had a fairly similar experience and Mandrake was the first distribution I could get working. Here is the post on my experience https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=807680&hilit ...

I know they say it supports Windows and Mac, but I had the web cam but not the microphone running on openSUSE before coming to Debian, so it must be possible. This is as far as I got openSUSE Forum
onn. 1440p Webcam with Autofocus & Built- In Microphone

Since this is hypothetical: we should consider what is the user's computer experience.
We have a more user friendly and intuitive graphical installer (sticking to the defaults), so, assuming the user has some grasp of the basic installation questions or has watched a recent Youtube tutorial, then Debian may be a good fit. Leaving the default Gnome desktop would make things easier.
Still, with anything there is some learning curve involved, but with a responsive and helpful forum and lots of ...

I thought it was a bit rambling, but it is, what it is, but I'm glad to have landed on my last distro.
Now I need to master all of those Debian docs

Thanks. I also like your quote

“ computer users can be divided into 2 categories:
Those who have lost data
...and those who have not lost data YET ”

I am in the first category and now take hourly btrfs snapshots.

Why do you have /home on a BTRFS? Any reason why you did not go with ext4?

ext4 is well established, even though, ext4's developer said Btrfs was a better direction.

Theodore Ts'o, a key Linux kernel developer and maintainer of the ext4 filesystem, where he discussed the long-term direction of filesystems. In this context, he acknowledged that Btrfs could be seen as a more future-oriented filesystem due to its advanced features.

In 2010, during a discussion on Linux kernel development, Ts ...

Having had multiple eye surgeries, I can only work in dark mode. Gnome is in dark mode, so I would have thought this forum would inherit it.
I use a firefox extension called Super Dark, but I have to keep switching to it each time. Is there a way for Debian forum to appear in dark mode?

After running Silverblue as a retiree in a home environment for the past 6 months, I thought the snapshots was the holy grail to revert from bad updates . The problems I see with Silverblue which would apply to all immutable cores, is that containerized packages are always going going to be restricted, and in my case downloading Evolution (flatpak) did not pull in the gspell dependencies which depnds on enchant, which depends on hunspell, Flatpak use it's own private local storage for things ...

Debian became my sole distribution a month ago, but I have been using Linux since the mid-1990s. In fact, I clearly remember when Ian launched Debian and always knew the name was the combination of Deb and Ian. But alas, I never tried it. Instead I went with Mandrake and Gnome desktop (remember that?). What a clunky combination, but it's what was around in the days. I do vaguely remember trying to install Debian a decade later, but I got so many errors and didn't know how to troubleshoot it, so ...

I get the same fatal error on a desktop with an Asus motherboard. I have it booting in UEFI. I created a manual 600MiB ESP mounted on /boot/efi
The only thing I can think of is the new Teamgroup 2TB SSD, although other distros did not complain. I can get Arch or Fedora or OpenSuse installed, but I want Debian.
Maybe this error is connected to EFI or could it be a setting in EUFI/BIOS? Anyway, my problem is still not resolved as I continue to research this error that is the last step of the ...

Here I am: a newbie to Debian. Yet I was around when Ian launched it.
So it took me 31 years to cycle through so many of its offspring, Ubuntu, Mint and many others along my Linux journey, only to reach the sire of them all--Debian. I am sure this is my last distro.

Happy 31st birthday.