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Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do they even need busybox if the base install already comes with full gnu coreutils? I remember Debian as the distro that Just Wroks(TM), when did it all go so wrong? Is anyone else here having similar issues, or am I doing something wrong?

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[–] possiblylinux127 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Installing outside packages is generally not a good idea. You can use Distrobox with a upstream distro like Fedora or you can use Debian Back ports.

https://backports.debian.org/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Had forgotten about backports. Need to get that set back up. Thank you for the reminder.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 2 months ago

It is fairly easy to use