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How much can I get away with before I break Debian?

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.

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  • I have had the mullvad repo for months with no issues. Debian is actually one of their supported distros. If you tried to add their repo on mint for example it would work youd have to install it via a deb package.

  • Use Timeshift! Saved me several times after experimenting a little too much with Debian.

    • Thats what I will be working on today. Read a little bit about it before imaging so I already got btrfs partitions set up. Thanks for reminding me I did that for a reason lol

      • Right on. Yeah, Timeshift isn't a backup solution, you still need 3-2-1 for your data, but it's great for as a system-wide Ctrl+Z for mistakes or broken updates.

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