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1. Open Synaptic
2. type linux-image- (it will list all available kernels you can download)
3. Mark for installation linux-image-5.8.14-amd64-desktop for example
4. Accordingly install linux-headers-5.8.14-amd64-desktop (kernel version must match!)
5. Run sudo update-grub
6. Reboot

source: https://www.deepin.org/en/2020/11/11/deepin-system-updates-2020-11-11/

Regarding Deepin packages: I've never found any for individual packages. They do, however, occasionally, put up a summary on their website. For example, here's the one from last month: https://www.deepin.org/en/2020/08/06/deepin-system-updates-2020-08-06/

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If the packages are from Debian's repository, you can view the changelogs in Synaptic.

Deepin has done some analytics on their app-store that were, well, "unseemly" for a Linux distribution - especially since they were not up front about it.

It didn't help that it was a Chinese company's analytics code. They have since removed those embeds, I believe, but the damage was done. Here is their official statement:

https://www.deepin.org/en/2018/04/14/linux-deepin-is-not-spyware/

There has been no evidence of "spying" beyond that and I don't think it's fair to keep holding this over their heads.

However, there are still valid reasons not to trust Deepin Linux - first and foremost their mandatory-to-accept EULA and its content.

Here's a video that explains the issue better than I could easily summarize:

https://youtu.be/NdN15JKiQYw

I personally found it hard to impossible to agree to the content of that license, especially as a non-Chinese citizen. But the distro gives the user no choice.

I have technical concerns about Deepin Linux as well, but I do enjoy their take on the Desktop environment and have enjoyed using Deepin DE on another, imho better, distros like Manjaro Deepin.

> imagine someone will probably create an extension for customizing the clock, as is the case for every other desktop environment that allows user extensions.

The only thing I can tell you is that the first feature is under discussion in internal panel. And for extensions for deepin, you can refer to: https://www.deepin.org/en/developer-community/development/

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/i2c/busses/i2c-amd-mp2.html

This was a driver for Lenovo touchpads and AMD Ryzen. It was added in Kerbal 5.2.

But I see now you have an Intel chip. I'll have to get back to you on that.

Google "Intel ELAN0615" maybe something will come up. I know there is the `libxinput" driver and a "synaptics" driver that I used with Ubuntu with a Logitech K400 but not sure if it is available for Deepin, probably is maybe check that out.

Nope sorry. For now I am running some Manjaro distro ( Mangaro XFCE works well but ) https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html dagronized edition.

With Manjaro XFCE or Garuda, once your kernel is up to date, touch screeen will work well.

As for Deepin, if you find a way to boot the installer, let me know... For now I am using Deepin on my main work desktop ( for months)

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Well you could at least provide what gpu you're running while describing the problem. Could you check what kernel you're running? You might want to change to 5.11 stable https://www.deepin.org/en/2021/03/16/instructions-of-dual-kernels/

That is a very old video. If you read the description, or the top pinned comment, you can see they removed the tracking exposed in that video. The creator of that video also released a second video, explaining how they removed it and what it did. Linux Deepin Have Removed CNZZ Tracking - YouTube

The data they were tracking was not any personal data, only anonymous data about your web browser, which you can read about in their statement here

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As of today, no, I would say Deepin is not Spyware.

Deepin now supports gestures by default: https://www.deepin.org/en/2020/12/28/deepin-20-1-details-make-perfection/ (see full changelog at the bottom)

Deepin now supports more gestures by default: https://www.deepin.org/en/2020/12/28/deepin-20-1-details-make-perfection/ (see full changelog at the bottom)

Well, what we know is, people complained about a service similar to Google Analytics on the Deepin Store. They explained what it is, and later removed it.

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https://www.deepin.org/en/2018/07/20/statement-on-canceling-cnzz-statistics-in-the-deepin-app-store/

First things first :

- Just to be SURE that Deepin works with your PC, you can download the Live ISO on https://www.deepin.org/en/download/. Virtual box just gives you an idea of how the OS run, but without your hardware. VirtualBox emulate new hardware. So just run the Live session first.

- Is secure boot enabled ? Look at your bios for secure boot, need to be disabled for better chances.

- UEFI or Legacy/CSM ? Same, if Windows is UEFI, better install it as UEFI. For this, your bios at boot menu should list both UEFI:{device} and {device}. Be sure to pick UEFI.

- Partitionning for me with Deepin is : 300MB for EFI, the amount of RAM as SWAP (16GB for you), then what's left as ext4, mounting point "/".

-Be sure to auto-boot Deepin (you can add windows to the menu quite easily afterward).

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Yes. The main site is abysmally slow. If you're in the US look for the James Madison Mirror at this site: https://www.deepin.org/en/mirrors/releases/ That was the one I used I think.

SourceForge has it too. https://sourceforge.net/projects/deepin/

On my phone and can't check but there should be universities that host mirrors to it. Check out https://www.deepin.org/en/mirrors/packages/ for some of them. Deepin is small in the number of it's users compared to other Linux distros. Expect it to be slower than others to download. It's still faster than windows updates though.

We have our plan: Support for both deb and Flatpak apps; both can be installed to guarantee the smooth transition from deb to Flatpak. details you can refer to : https://www.deepin.org/en/developer-community/planning/

>2. Chinese test in app store along with English And when I hover over firefox installed from appstore on the dock its showing Chinese

The packager hasn't fixed the naming yet, the temporary solution is editing firefox-nal.desktop in /usr/share/applications(it will revert after update) or installing firefox using flatpak https://flatpak.org/setup/Deepin/ -> sudo flatpak install firefox

Do you have any reasons for compiling the program? You can get it from Flathub.

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To setup Flathub on your system, you can follow the same instructions for Debian. You don't need to run Step 2 though.