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Debian as out of the box (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 1 month ago by Purplegengar25@lemmy.cafe to c/debian@lemmy.world

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I was wondering since I moved from Linux Mint to Debian, everyone said it's more for advanced users, it's barebones, it needs lots of adjusting....etc.

But I'm the contrary, my codecs where there and worked. It was more stable and intuitive. I only had to plugin my store to the flat hub. Nothing much I did of tinkering than I did in Mint.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

everyone said it’s more for advanced users

I highly doubt that.

some said it’s more for intermediate users

Debian has always had many different types of installation media and a labyrinthine website, which can cause confusion.

Also iirc the default installation medium is just that, not a live medium at the same time. Not me, but it seems enough to confuse some people.

Then others complain about the untweaked default look, and maybe one or two codecs/firmwares missing
(I guess you got lucky there, as did I with my all-intel laptop).

All that is apparently enough to either get confused by or not recommend it to absolute beginners.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

They have live installers now! But... the labyrinthine website.

(https://debian.org/cd/live/)

-- Frost

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Debian's website is very annoying to navigate to me. I forget exactly why I came to that belief years ago, but you're not alone in thinking that.