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Thinkpad t560 wont boot debian (feddit.rocks)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It installs but when i try to boot it wont. When i select the hdd in the boot menu it does nothing. Ubuntu server and fedora works but i woud like debian

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

but i woud like debian

Could you elaborate on this? I'm just curious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wanna selfhost invidious. It installed fine on debian whereas on ubuntu make cant find shards even though crystal is installed. I keep getting squashfs errors that stops network access

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How did you install it on Debian if you didn't get beyond boot? Or is this on another system?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Another system but i figured it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While I'm not op, debian offers increased stability over ubuntu and fedora, and that might be enough to make someone want debian

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for answering! 'Stability' as in "less inclined to change" does indeed better apply to the standard Debian installation than to either of Fedora or Ubuntu. However, Fedora derivatives like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux offer similar stability and so does Ubuntu LTS. So, while it does potentially explain why OP may have preferred Debian, it does not (IMO) by itself make a strong case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

From my personal experience, ubuntu (lts or not), has a tendency of nuking itself randomly. It's happened more than one time to me, to shit off my PC, eat something, return to a broken installation that doesn't boot. And I've got plenty of experience with fedora just not doing things, like mtp, vulkan on flatpaks, I've had it crash on login (on x11), and had gnome apps constantly crashing (on wayland). Currently, I'm using debian, and I've never had any issues with it, other than outdated packages, which is relatively minor