Eric Duhamel: > Depending on what you mean by "newbies", I don't think they would know if > they want any particular image of GNU/Linux except the one that was designed > to run on the product by the maker of the product. After all, they don't know > the nooks and crannies of GNU/Linux and would just want to receive a product > that works.
OK, I'm a software developer, not a system administrator. I have no idea what 90% of packages installed on my system do. I only use terminal to upload my code to the Git repository. But I need g++ 6. Debian Jessie has g++ 4.9.2 which is extremely old and none of my software will compile there. When I pledged for Debian card, I expected stock Debian with maybe a few custom packages which would be explicitly marked as such. And the first thing I'd do is to upgrade to Testing which as of writing this has g++ 6.3.0. Now I'm told that issuing "apt-get dist-upgrade" is taking responsibility, etc. So I'm stuck with old and unusable frankendistro and on my own if I want to make it work. I've chosen GNU/Linux because of its freedom and I've chosen Debian because it doesn't have proprietary software in main. I have no idea of what is going under the hood. I don't care what init system I run as long as it is free software and it boots my PC. A couple of years ago I needed to buy a laptop. I've looked for one which doesn't come with Windows and I've found one with Ubuntu. Now, I really hate Ubuntu and the first thing I've done was to install Debian in dual boot. For some reason, Debian couldn't power off my laptop so I removed it and I'm still stuck with Ubuntu. I know what you're going to say: "You should've looked for the solution on the Internet.". Well, sometimes I don't have time and am scared of bricking my hardware. I want things to "just work". It looks like EOMA68-A20 is not going to just work. I don't want it to end like my laptop.
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