Running ComfyUI on Debian 13
Debian 13 is out and I did what any sensible person does: installed it on a spare machine, then immediately tried to make it do something it doesn’t want to do. Here’s the problem in two lines. Debian 13 ships Python 3.13 and NVIDIA driver 550, which tops out at CUDA 12.4. ComfyUI wants PyTorch 2.9+, compiled against CUDA 12.8, which wants driver 570+. That’s a gap. And on Debian, the official NVIDIA CUDA repo doesn’t support 13 yet anyway. You could hunt down a third-party driver package. You could also jam a fork into a toaster. Both will end badly. ...