On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 05:14:14PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2021-01-12 16:36 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 02:48:22PM +0000, Dan Pal wrote: > >> Hello Debian Developers, > > > > Hello World, > > > > > >> I am writing to you from my Debian-Buster 10.6 laptop – that used > >> to be a Windows 10 laptop. I would not be using Debian at all except I > >> was able to find a dvd version at debian.org to install. I couldn’t > >> install from a net install version because of my wireless chipset not > >> being supported directly by Debian. The current policy of hiding other > >> versions of Debian is limiting the adoption of your OS by people like > >> me who are interested in moving from Windows 10. > > > > Seen the "I think it could be better", not yet seen the "how" > > > > > > Please elaborate the improvement. > > Provide a way to discover the working netinst with non-free firmware, > right now it seems to be impossible to find.
Ah, yes I also wonder how much the world will improve if non-free would be split in non-free and non-free-firmware. Currently is non free firmware a hugh promoter of non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list > The official netinst image advertised on the homepage is for servers and > virtual machines only. How is an average user of Windows or even other > GNU/Linux distributions supposed to know that official Debian images do > not offer network access during installation on desktops and laptops? Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
