Minimal Debian 13 installation

Use the Netinst ISO - https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ Verify checksums.

Set root password during install, otherwise sudo will not work.

Partitioning:

• Entire disk
• EFI, bootable, name EFI
• root as btrfs, compress option, name root and label root
• swap name swap
• Scroll down to "Finish Partitioning" and "Write Changes"

When you get to "software selection", deselect everything but System Utilities, reboot, log into the shell with your username and password and:

su -
apt update && apt upgrade

# a smaller, more flexible KDE environment compared to kde-full
apt install -y kde-standard

apt purge ifupdown

You will need to remove the ifupdown package, because that's what the installer uses, while Gnome uses NetworkManager, so there will be a conflict and your WiFi card won't show up (although you will actually be connected) until you do this and reboot.

EDIT: you also need to edit the NetworkManager conf file:

su -
vi /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
# Charge managed=false to managed=true, save and reboot.
shutdown -r now

Bootstrapping

Before running script, verify:

• sudo access
• added additional repositories in "Software & Update" or in /etc/sources.list (contrib, non-free, non-free-firmware) https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

On Debian you might need to add user into sudo group and reboot.

su -
usermod -aG sudo <username>

I use yadm to bootstrap my system, there are some steps to make systemd work:

sudo apt install -y yadm git zsh
yadm clone https://github.com/iturdikulov/dev

Post install

• System Prefrences: layout kcmshell6 kcm_keyboard, keybindings Ctrl Position
• System Preferences: dark theme, default applications
• Settings, Dark theme, Resolution, scale-factor, refresh rate
• Import shortcuts scheme: from .config/yadm/shortcuts_scheme.kksrc
• General behaviour, no animation?
• Sync Account
• Configure desktop app run arguments (in KDE very easy): foot --maximized
• Export/Import gpg backup with script
• Verify ~/.config/mimeapps.list
• https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/ru/btrbk, TODO: offline?
• https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
• https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus
• https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl
• https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kde-battery-charge-limit-reset-after-reboot/95628/8
• add kernel parameter to fix freeze amd_pstate=active (2025)
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/ASUS
• sudo update-initramfs -c -k all after frimware install GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10" sudo update-grub2
• https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl
  • /etc/asusd/fan_curves.ron
• https://itsecforu.ru/2023/05/30/autossh-zapusk-monitoring-i-perezapusk-ssh-soe/
• remove discover updates

sudo rm /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop

LLM CLI

llm install llm-openrouter
pass show ...|y
llm keys set openrouter
llm models

# Set default model, for example
llm models default openrouter/google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview

Shortcuts

M-F2 C-F10 M-S-Up/Left/Right/Down - focus between visible windows M-Tab M-`