Ill have to check and see if thats in the TUI installer too. TY

That kinda makes sense but I never would have found it on my own.

https://www.slax.org/ It’s easy, is a full featured desktop, and has persistence on your USB stick.

Debian, sudo, at least when ever I install it without a desktop.

edit: I’m dumb af, it tells you right in the installer, I just never read it

The Debian LXC containers ship without nano, the normal (net/dvd/cd) install have nano.

I once had a 200" Sony CRT projector. It had a grid of at least 20 trimpots for adjusting the picture on each of the tubes (RGB) and after 45min to an hour of warming up and tweaking it was an unbelievable picture. Then a 300v DC rail shorted to some logic level stuff and it caught fire :(

I run Deb testing, in the spring a change in Pipewire broke sleep/suspend for me, the upgrade came along with 100 other package upgrades. It took FOREVER to roll back just the right packages to the point where everything worked again, 0/10 would not recommend.

cries in apt

I’m running it on a dual core 2.5ghz with 1800MB of ram, no complaints!

mc is killer. All the features of a desktop file manager but in your terminal!

The only valid argument I see is monoculture. If systemd every does fall out of favour, become broken or compromised in some disastrous way it will be a lot of work getting going again.

Having just jumped over I might be bottom of the priority list for company communications.

Guess I’m a low-value client.

I might do so as well to avoid the next decade of shopping around.

I know there are other factors it just feels like the only people getting screwed are the little guys. In Canada the rates that third party ISPs pay and charge are dictated by the giant telcos. Our regulating body even allowed the telcos to raise prices to the point where reselling is no longer viable. Fucking the little guys again.

As someone who uses Debian for browsing and gaming, I agree. It is a tool that you pick because you have a goal in mind and I pretty much never recommend it as an intro to Linux for new users. The only reason I continue to use it as a desktop/laptop is for consistency between all my machines so I don’t have to remember how to use 8 different package managers.

There are plenty of friendlier distors out there that have novice users in mind and help them learn the basics. Debian is the distro you choose because you have a specific goal in mind, could be a server, a dev machine, or to build your own distro, but not as ‘my-first-install.’

I prefer the Debian website over most other distro’s modern look. It’s simple, like Debian.

If a user is that far down the technical literacy ladder, they do not need Debian, they need Ubuntu or Mint or one of a dozen other distros that prioritize UX over production.

If it weren’t for VirtualBox I would avoid them all together. It’s just so damned convenient though.