Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
Debian is Debian made easy
To us it’s easy, but not to the computer illiterate. Debian is at least as difficult to a Linux illiterate newcomer as Fedora is. You want functional multimedia codecs? Thumbnails for video files? Drivers for your Nvidia card? Drivers for peripherals that aren’t directly supported by the kernel? Distributions that people like us avoid, mint, Ubuntu, etc, make all of that happen for you, or at least guide your hand. A newbie installing Debian for the first time isn’t even going to know what they don’t have and need to find.
I see this attitude a lot, and it does nothing for the Linux community. We’re about to be flooded with ex windows users in a few short months, and they arent RTFM certified Linux users like we are. Repeating the mantra of “read the documentation” and “it’s easy already, duh” is just going to leave those people begrudgingly buying new hardware that they don’t need when they hit those early Linux speed bumps and see comments like yours making them feel like idiots.
Computers are hard to the computer illiterate.
We’re about to be flooded with ex windows users in a few short months
No, we're not.
...consider the question, what is Debian for?
It's primarily a server OS. Not every distro needs to be good-to-go for desktop/workstation/gaming/mobile use cases out of the box in order for them to be "easy". This is a big part of why there are a huge basket of distros to choose from, many are for different focuses or specific purposes.
And I didn't say Debian is only a server OS...
A newbie installing Debian for the first time isn’t even going to know what they don’t have and need to find.
but they get the same error messages and symptoms like on Ubuntu and Linux Mint (and Elementary OS), they know how to google/duck/bing/whatever right?
They may be newcomers but it would be wrong to consider them computer illiterate.
Debian is already easy out of the box.
Chromium instead of Firefox? The gate is wide open, but if that's the first selling point, your mind is the prison.
What's difficult about Debian?
Linus Torvalds admitted he has not been able to install it. Somehow the installer looks like to be hard.
He said that in 2007. Things have changed a lot since then, Debian is as easy to install as any other big distro (most of them, including Debian, use the Calamares installer nowadays)
What??? Debian has an install wizard that literally walks you through it. You could do nothing but click "Next" and "Ok" over and over and end up with a working Debian system.
Debian is already easy and stable as fuck, it doesn't need any housekeeping. What the hell is this?