This the guy that attacked Debian for being “woke”; ain’t watching him.

Even Richard Stallman uses Linux.

Thanks to you all for helping me understand it :)

Hi! Thank you for your reply. So, if I understood correctly, whenever I click on “Install from Debian/GNU Linux” on Discover I am getting software directly from Debian’s repository (thus, a “repository” in the sense that it’s a place where this software is stored and can be retrieved); same thing when clicking on “Install from Flathub” for a Flatpak from Flathub. This does seem like the safest approach in the sense that it’s the less risky one and, if malware did slip through, such as the XZ backdoor, at least it would not have been due to a personal mistake of mine, but a general one which would’ve affected much more people too.

This, in turn, is different from APT, which is not Debian’s repository, but Debian’s package manager. So, technically, I could write “sudo apt install (anything)” to get any piece of software from Debian’s repository indeed, but I could also use that command to get software from somewhere else also in the form of a Deb package but which would not have come from Debian itself.

Did I get this right?

Thanks a bunch.

Thank you! Honestly, it’s quite amazing that I can enjoy such complex pieces of software made by and taken care of by the community while not trying to sell me anything or sell my data in return. I love Debian and FLOSS in general.

Thanks for joining the conversation and help make things clear. This does help; so, basically, not having manually enabled anything else than Flathub/Flatpaks on Discover, and having Debian’s repository already, I am fine as long as I install programmes from either of those two.

Thank you for your insightful comment. If I may incur once again in noobieness, what precisely do you mean when you say the “repository” of my distribution? Do you mean the pieces of software than come preinstalled with the OS itself?

Thank you; this helps me to better understand it.

Thank you for your insight!

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Oh, I see; well, thank you for the detailed explanation! So it’s nothing weird, after all

Thank you, appreciate the advice and, also, your view on OpenSUSE. That distro actually caught my attention and, if I ever feel like hopping again, I will give it a shot.

Thanks! Will take a look

Thank you! I didn’t know these ones.

Thank you for your recs! I have been running Linux exclusively for a little over a month now, after dual booting to transition. Of course, I distro-hopped along the way trying Mint, Ubuntu, Zorin, Mint again, until I thought “why not just use Debian itself to see it for myself” and I quite like it.

Thank you!

Hi, and thank you for your detailed reply. You brought up a few interesting points I hadn’t considered.

While I haven’t had time today to look into all your suggestions, I’ve focused on the last two related to the BIOS:

First of all, aparently, my BIOS does not have, or at least I have not found, an option to disable either GPU. Perhaps I’m missing something but, going to the advanced settings, this is all that shows up:

Secondly, I have run the “inxi -Faz” command and it tells me my BIOS version is from January 2021. According to my laptop’s manufacturer website, the latest BIOS driver available for my system dates from March 2021, so I’m not sure it would make a great difference, but I will still look into how it could be updated without using Windows (which I no longer have lol).

As soon as I have the time, I’ll take a look at your other suggested points as well.

Thank you and have a nice evening!

Hi, again!

So, first of all, this is a refurbished laptop I bought back at 2021 (probably a model from 2019 or 2020, if that’s considered old enough)

Now, I have forced the laptop to trigger the issue by repeatedly closing and opening right now and I am writing as the screen flashes at this moment:

Having tried increasing brightness up to 100 %, the issue persists. Additionally, lowering all the way down to 0 % doesn’t solve it either.

Thank you, though; I’ll keep looking for clues.

Thank you; I’ll look into it, though, out of curiosity