 There is a common misconception out there that Debian is a stable distribution now I know what you Debian fanboys are thinking man. Of course Debian is stable. It's the most stable. It's literally the granddaddy of all stable distros, but You can break anything right Just you could break the most imbreakable thing in the world because everything is breakable No matter how stable it is Debian can be broken if you are as much of an idiot as I am so I have been using Debian now for three days or so three or four days and it has been a Rocky for start, but the thing is is that it's not Debian's fault so before everyone who is a Debian fan goes to click the unsubscribe button know this Debian is fine. I'm still gonna do my long-term review. I'm gonna add some things to it to make it more interesting I'm gonna switch over to testing. I'm gonna, you know Probably play around with nicks a little bit inside of Debian I'm gonna do a whole bunch of really interesting stuff for the review and it's gonna be fine, but my process to get to fine was not a Easy one. It was not good and it was all my fault It was not Debian's fault Even just a little bit because if I'd used my brain my pea-sized little Brain I would have realized what the problem was without having to install Debian for kind of four times Before I finally got to the right put point, right now. Let me defend myself just a little bit first of all I'm not a Debian user. I haven't ever been a Debian user. I don't think I'll ever be a Debian user to be honest with you It's just not my sort of thing I prefer distributions that are a little bit more up-to-date. I like Fedora, for example, Fedora is a mixture between Arch and Debian because it kind of sits in the middle. It has more up-to-date packages. It isn't quite as Bleeding edge as Arch is right. So that's really where my heart lies But you know Debian has its uses for a lot of people. It's fantastic on servers on every VPS that I have Debian is the operating system that I use on it So Debian has its place and it's really good, but it's not for me And I know that already going in but that's really beside the point the point of the the whole video here is is that I'm a moron I'm bleeding moron. It's horrible and honestly I'm surprised that I know how to walk and breathe at the same time sometimes so about three months ago or so I made a purchase and I bought a brand new AMD 6750 XT graphics card now at the top end highest end thing It's been around for a little while, but it replaced my RX 580 which I'd had for years and it was a good purchase But honestly, I'm not a gamer. Everybody knows this about me So I don't let's just say push the limits of my graphics card and to be honest with you I kind of forgot that I bought it I mean that's the thing is like I'd really the only reason I would I bought in the first place was because my 580 was making some really weird noises like the the fan was dying or whatever and it's just easier to you know replace it then Fix it. So I forgot that I had this brand new graphics card So I went to install Debian bullseye, which uses the 5.10 kernel Now, I would think that the 5.10 kernel was around when the RX or the 56 the 68 756 this one talking I don't even know what the name of the damn thing is the 6750 XT I would think that the 5.10 kernel was around then But apparently it was not or at least the hardware support for that particular kernel for my particular graphics card is not where it should be and The thing is is that because I forgot that I had the graphics card, which just I mean seriously I'm a stupid stupid stupid person. How do you forget you buy a graphics card? I don't even know This point is really bad. I'm sure making a fantastic impression on all the new subscribers Anyways, you know, but I forgot about it, you know, I just Didn't even think about it really and I went to install bullseye And of course because it doesn't have good apparently good hardware support for that particular graphics card the first Installer wouldn't even get to the installation part. It just showed me a whole bunch of non-free or firmware errors now I have a Fairly long history when it comes to Debian and their ISO problems They have a ton of ISOs. They really do give arco linux a run for their money when it comes to the number of ISOs that they offer and They they do about as good a job as arco is showing you where those ISOs are, you know, so I have a very interesting opinion on Debian and their ISO problem, but I had a Debian bullseye non-free ISO on ventoi That should have worked So that's what I went with first when that wouldn't get to the installer I figured well, maybe this ISO is just too old So because I think it was like 11.5 or 11.6 or something and 11.7 existed So I went to their website splunked through all the menus and stuff like that You had to go through in order to get to the non-free stuff You know, there's a couple clicks you got to get to in order to get to the list And then you got to click a couple more times to actually get to the file list where it's actually where you can download it Beside the point got the non-free ISO, which is the key that I wanted which is the KDE live version So I could use the calamari's install I just figured I'd use that one because I was gonna use plasma anyways and that one I got installed But it wouldn't show a picture. So at this point, I'm blaming Debbie and like I have seriously bad words to say about Debbie at this point in the process and You guys gotta remember completely my fault if I remembered there are ways around of there's a way There are ways around Using the 5.10 kernel. I could use testing. I could use sit or whatever it's called I could alter the the installation process to use a different kernel if I wanted to there are so many different ways to Move around inside of bullseye to get to the right kernel that I had need in order to use on my system I could have done that but I didn't think about it. I remember I'm an idiot So I continued on I installed the XFC version thinking that maybe the KD plasma version was just broken That one did install and I did get a picture on that one surprisingly and if I had stopped there and Thought about why I was having the problem It would have been so easy because I would have disabled you know I could have just switched over to you know the testing repositories and installed the proper kernel and I would have been on Debbie and bullseye XFC version right then from that point It would have been fine, but I didn't think about it I was still thinking about why this isn't working because what that problem was with that installation was that it would not give me Display resolutions beyond like 720p. It didn't even have the options inside of Xrander or inside of the display settings panel and you know, I thought maybe it was a driver's issue So I installed you know the AMD GPU driver, which should have already been installed, which it was actually already installed again Should have been a clue was not a clue because again freaking moron So I ended up installing I said screw it. I'm not doing bullseye so my original plan as you know from the announcement video of my book my my Debbie an announcement for my long-term review My original plan was to go from bullseye to bookworm when bookworm comes out I wanted to test that process, but after installing Debbie in three times I was like, haha, no, I'm not doing this again. I'm gonna install bookworm in the morning So I do I went to sleep got in the morning installed bookworm and it installed perfectly fine That was when that you know after hours of being an idiot That was when I was like why did this work and not the other one working? Then there was like a light bulb moment above my head. I was like, oh Yeah, I installed that stupid GPU that I had to have and it probably wasn't supported by 5.10 That's probably the problem So yeah, so my Whole thing of making this video was the devion is not stable if you break it yourself That's really the whole thing of this thing is like so I'm going to put a very Click baity title on this video just to let y'all know I I'm 100% fully aware That the title of this video and maybe even the thumbnail of this video is very click baity I don't care. I don't care I'm a youtuber. What did you expect? So yeah, my initial start with my Debian long-term review for this time has not gone Well, but has nothing to do with Debian But I wanted to kind of talk about it a little bit because I needed to get it off my chest because I'm more on Like I don't even know why I continue to do this I obviously should go back to Windows where you can only use it one way You can't break anything and if you do break it you just nuke and pave and start over again There's no fixing anything, you know, that's what I should probably do or maybe use Mac OS where the same thing's kind of true So this was the end of my Linux experiment apparently Because I'm just too stupid for Linux, I guess I don't know anyways That is it for this video if you have thoughts on This whole fiasco you can leave them in the comments below. Just let me know how much of an idiot. I obviously am Just be kind about it. I don't you don't need to be meaner to me than I am to myself So anyways, that's it for this video. 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