Made the move to Debian stable on my daily laptop over the weekend. Most of my home lab stuff is running Debian so I am not too green, but I never really tested a lot of stuff with it.
I brought by personal device into work today and didn’t think about a VPN when setting it up. I have a few months left on Mullvad I am planning to use. Added their repo and installed the program.
Should I try to stray away from the practice when running Debian as a daily device? I never really deviated from the Debian repos on my home lab stuff, and I know the mantra of “Don’t break Debian”. Just wondering what you can do and shouldn’t do. I am planning on setting up a VPN on my home network sometime soon, and just sending the traffic through that via OpenVPN.
Cool never looked into apt pinning but seems pretty interesting.
Looking at what I install as self contained packages vs requiring dependencies made this a lot more clear. Thanks!
Cool yeah the main problem everyone seems is someone installs debian stable get frustrated it’s got old stable packages and trys to add testing Repo or a PPA from ubuntu and then brick their systems. If you have a good grasp you can mix repos.
Like my home desktop I run a mix of testing, unstable, and experimental and Pin stuff from unstable and experimental when needed. Note I would never do that going between stable and testing as the packages are too far apart depending on where we see in the release process. But since testing and unstable are normally just a fewer weeks off nothing breaks. But I treat it like I’m running on unstable like using apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges to confirm everything when I update.