On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:35:00 +0000, Lyberta wrote: > 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".
If you can boot your machine from USB, you won't brick it by changing the OS, because you can boot a Debian or Ubuntu installer and reinstall whichever you want. So your laptop is probably safe. > > It looks like EOMA68-A20 is not going to just work. I don't want it to > end like my laptop. Will the EOMA68-A20 boot from USB to run an installer? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
