Debian

I recently have made this post talking about why I am ditching Windows and going full Linux. If you want to get a better context for what I am going to write here, you can check that out first. Yes, that’s right, I have build my very own home lab running Debian 13 Trixie, and it’s a life changer. For starters, I have completely ditched services like ChatGPT, Proton Drive, Google Photos, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Music and so on. Now I host all of that in my own server, well, not exactly the same services, but the open source free (as in freedom) alternatives. ...

A collection of applications to improve desktop experience. GNOME: sudo apt install obs-studio steam vlc libreoffice menulibre qbittorrent kdenlive wine protontricks lutris gimp gparted audacity goverlay piper guvcview chromium timeshift nvtop gnome-shell-extension-manager hunspell-pt-br hunspell-pt-pt openjdk-25-jdk nvidia-driver-libs:i386 heif-gdk-pixbuf passwd ffmpegthumbnailer libnotify-bin gamemode bluetooth bluez-cups bluez-meshd rclone fonts-ubuntu fastfetch btop KDE: sudo apt install obs-studio steam vlc libreoffice qbittorrent kdenlive wine protontricks lutris gimp audacity goverlay piper guvcview chromium timeshift nvtop hunspell-pt-br hunspell-pt-pt openjdk-25-jdk nvidia-driver-libs:i386 heif-gdk-pixbuf passwd ffmpegthumbnailer libnotify-bin gamemode bluetooth bluez-cups bluez-meshd rclone filelight fonts-ubuntu fastfetch btop Additional packages: ...

1. Open terminal and type the following sudo apt install qgnomeplatform-qt5 2. Edit /etc/environment and paste the following: sudo vim /etc/environment # fix for broken QT themes QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb 3. Log out of the session or restart the machine. sudo reboot Recommended Guides: Debian Post Install Debian Apps Debian Firewall Debian Better Fonts

Setting up Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) 1. Install it using your package manager. sudo apt install ufw 2. Now use these recommended rules: sudo ufw limit 22/tcp sudo ufw allow 80/tcp sudo ufw allow 443/tcp sudo ufw default deny incoming sudo ufw default allow outgoing sudo ufw enable 3. If you are using the application LocalSend, also run this: sudo ufw allow 53317 This will allow localsend to work properly with the ufw rules above. ...

1. Install the Microsoft Fonts using this command: sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer -y 2. Create the following directory and the fonts.conf file: mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/ then vim ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf now paste this setting: <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> <edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const> </edit> <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"> <const>lcddefault</const> </edit> <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> 3. Run these commmands: # Reconfigure fontconfig sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config # Regenerate fonts cache sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig Or just run ...

Enable contrib and non-free sources Using the terminal, edit the following file, add the “contrib” and “non-free” sources, or replace with these lines: sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware Enable bookworm backports (it works for Trixie as well) ...