Edit: I installed gnome as well, while in xfce (are you supposed to do that?). Audio now works, and so does WiFi all of a sudden, but didn’t really care about WiFi. A lot of stuff in gnome doesn’t work, like the settings app, display settings, Firefox disappeared (reinsatalled and said there was a conflict with something in gnome, continues anyway), evolution, etc. and it is super slow, so I just continue to use xfce. Everything works except Bluetooth (works in gnome), and the issues below.
Not really. Different desktop environments usually come with accompanying applications, which can clutter your applications menus and can sometimes create conflicts. If you are going to do it however, adding '
apt --no-install-recommends install <desktopenvironment>' is usually the best way to go so that you're just getting the environment itself.
Right, I should have appended that Buster GNOME is only about 80% functional. If you need to access GNOME's Settings, you need to manually launch it from a terminal via '
gnome-control-center'.
Most of GNOME's interface (and every other environment in the world) can usually be recreated in Xfce, so it is my personal favorite environment for that and its speed alone.
Other issues I have not resolved: Cannot play youtube videos in Firefox ESR, even after user agent fix.
This is in 52.9? That's strange, I haven't ever had problems playing video from 52.9. 47 was always the most problematic release...
Surf and SurfTube both crash upon opening.
Surf from the Debian Ports repository is broken on most websites, so for a while now, I've been actively trying to get Surf + its dependencies from Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 8 (which both work fine) working on Buster.
I actually did get Surf from 16.04 running fine on Buster, but it would crash whenever YouTube videos were played, and I'm still trying to wade through Debian 8 Surf's dependency hell.
All I can tell you now is to keep your eyes open. I'll try to get
something going for Buster as soon as I can.
Until then, I recommend using Arctic Fox for YouTube and browsing. It's much faster than Firefox, will play videos fine, and has had extensive vetting.
Cannot connect to my NAS or any other computers on my network, I tried the fix in the first post but I am assuming I need to do something else like enable AFP or SMB somehow but I have not looked into it.
Try '
sudo apt install gvfs-fuse'. I was sure
gvfs-backends was all that was needed, but maybe not...
Whenever I download and save a file Firefox immediately closes, but the file is still downloaded.
I'm assuming this is on 52.9?
Change the configuration profile to Analog Stereo Output, make sure sound is not muted in both the PulseAudio panel plugin and PulseAudio Volume Control, and if you have a keyboard with 'Fn' present, try holding it down while you're adjusting volume from your volume keys.
Other than making sure one of the modules in
/etc/modules is not misspelled, I don't know what to tell you. The 'Shasta Mac Analog I/O Stereo' means the system recognizes the machine it's in, and that it can see the sound card. The actual problem here would be getting the audio out of the machine and into the air.
Actually, play a video or a piece of music, and open pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control). Go to the 'Playback' pane. There will be another meter below 'System Sounds' that's controlling the active music or video volume. Make sure its volume meter isn't set all the way down. That's gotten me a couple times.
Materia comes with its own window manager. You can go into 'Window Manager' under Xfce settings and change it to a matching Materia light or dark variant so you don't have to use the Xfce default. The macOS imitation should be there too.
And unless that's your preferred configuration of font, you can go to the 'Font' pane in Xfce's 'Appearance' settings and play with the hinting until you get a desired smoothness.
