On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:57:19 +0000 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 17 March 2017 16:45:31 Catherine Gramze wrote: > > It is more important to not intimidate the beginner. > > Not, it isn't. Debian is for experts, or would-be experts, or those > who will never be experts but like to pretend. > > I am so sad that Debian is becoming more and more Ubuntu-ised. For > those who want and like Ubuntu, Ubuntu exists. > > > We were all a beginner > > once. > > Yes, we were. And we either managed, had help (I had a lot AND used > Libranet (an easier true derivative - used Debian sources, but > pinned) or used a derivative. > > We neither expect nor demand that Windows be installable by all and > sundry, from scratch, on an empty machine. > Actually, these days, it's a pretty trivial job. You basically give it a user name, a computer name and a timezone. I've done a few 7 Pro installations in the last year or two. I don't know how easy a Debian non-expert CD/DVD installation is, the last time I tried that, I ended up without networking. Not just without it configured, without an eth0 at all. I did report it as a bug, but apparently it was a feature. -- Joe
