Why are trying to replace the Gnu tools with non-GPL stuff again?

openssh on musl linux (alpine, openwrt, buildroot, yocto, and a lot of the docker images you've pulled)

Holy crap þat was a journey

Cool, thank you for informing me.

1. Alpine is still a Linux distro, just a lighter one. Also, busybox is a set of standard utilities as an alternative to coreutils; I have no idea how it’s particularly relevant here.
2. The thing is, I’m not using only Docker. I also use native nginx as a reverse proxy, for which I like Debian’s defaults, as well as SyncThing, which are both well-maintained packages in Debian. Also I kind of prefer glibc distros. While glibc kind of sucks, so much stuff I like using prefers or requires it; for instance, last I saw, mDNS/Avahi resolution on BusyBox was kind of a pain in the rear.
3. Most of what I use Flatpak for isn’t network-facing or opening unverified files anyway; the most important applications I do run the native Debian version. Honestly, truth be told, you are correct that I do often prefer native versions and will run the native Debian package if possible (and considering the current age of stable, a lot of them really aren’t that old; Inkscape is basically still the latest version, for instance, while Firefox is always kept to the latest ESR); at some point, though, I do find a Debian package that is too behind to do what I do (though rare, TBH), and despite some issues with Flatpak, at the end of the day, I need to just get a piece of software installed and get on with my day. In that case, I just do a Benjamin Sisko:

Sic! What an awesome resource! Thanks! 😊

Graphic design was what introduced me to them haha. To this day, I’m still on a Mac at work, but now it’s programming. At home, it’s all Linux.

Was never a Pagemaker person. Even InDesign was shaky for me, but I had to use it for work. It grew on me. Just had some weird sluggishness at times iirc.

Shellcheck can help spotting such mistakes: https://www.shellcheck.net/

Also, don't worry, Debian has plenty of Toy Story characters left for many years of releases to come!

If there is whitespace in the filename, when you pass it to the script you need to escape it or wrap it in quotes. And then you need to put quotes around the variable in the script that reads the parameters.

From what you posted, you aren't including the space in the filename inside the quotes

Thanks! Solved! 😁

Thanks! 😃

ahhh ... found your problem: Put double quotes around the $1 in the bash script: scanimage -d [device] --format=png -p -o "$1"

Put the $1 in quotes in the script. -o "$1" ?

As an OpenSuse user, should I look for alternatives? I do like OpenSuse as it is now...

This is why it works great for my gaming machine and my steam deck, but I cannot use any atomic distro for my production devices.

Debian does minor releases every so often, too. For example the current version of Trixie is on its 7th point release (12.7). Trixie was released last August.

I don’t think SUSE is really a large corporation

It's available on the experimental, out-of-tree branch fairydust

This kind of immutable distros require a very specific partitioning scheme. I tried a couple years ago trying to match the requirements while preserving/reusing my other volumes but it was too finicky and the installation kept failing. I ended up just installing it on its own in a different device that is more fit for purpose (a small PC plugged to my TV). It works great for that use case, but it's not worth experimenting with it beyond that, imho.

Any stable distro that features a more stable Plasma, without always changing features, for my 60+ dad? Aside from it being a constant beta-version, it has some nice desktop tooling vs. Gtk XFCE.

Staff criticized a very specific thing, not a vibe: the approach for installing software.

You don't really need to use the terminal at all if you just stick with the software that's available in flatpak / bazaar. If you had to use the terminal then that means you most likely wanted to install software / tweak stuff outside of the intended channels.

I don't think Bazzite is very suitable as an all-purpose distro or a distro for people who want to tweak or use the terminal much, it was originally designed as a SteamOS distro (before Valve made available their own SteamOS image), intended to be installed in Steam Deck / Steam Box style devices. I use it in a living room PC for gaming and watching videos and it works perfectly for this usecase. For desktop / laptop I run a different Linux distro.

No, SUSE lays off workers because it has been purchased by private equity ghouls and they have been looking to flip it quickly this past year.

I had a few issues when i first started using it but that was because i wanted to tinker and i installed using the rpm-tree thing and at one point it broke updates. But it was easy to fix because of it being an atomic os and all i had to do was reinstall it with a rebase in the terminal, restart the pc afterwards and not only was i fully updated on a "fresh" install, without all of my goober breakages glommed on, i still kept all of my userdata, flatpaks, games and saves. Was great.

I really need to explore atomic for my daily driver at some point, but the tinkerer in me still loves the freedom of arch.