On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:17 +0100, Lisi wrote: > Since Squeeze I think that Debian has removed itself from this market. The > main repository and kernel contain only FLOSS software. I.e. many drivers > are missing and have to be separately installed. This is beyond a total > newbie, and I think could not be rendered easily attainable by attaching a > set of instructions. So sadly, I have come to the conclusion that I must > recommend e.g. Linux Mint if any newbie who wishes to self-install were to > ask me for my opinion.
A serious issue for all Linux distros are codecs. We're living in the media age, consumer need codecs. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs Last time (02 Sep 2012) I tried to upgrade my AV Linux (Debian stable), gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg should be automatically removed. I didn't notice a replacement that should be installed. Conflicts caused by codecs (just one issue) are an issue for most distros I know. Regards, Ralf PS: For producers those codecs are less important, but Linux distos for producers usually by default ship with those codecs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347396699.3987.28.camel@localhost.localdomain
