On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:55:57AM -0500, Bill White wrote: > I think Debian is hard to install. The magazine reviewers all > say Debian is too hard to install, and the lists see a huge > number of people saying it's too hard to install. Now you have > a user who says it's too hard to install, and you ridicule him. > > Maybe it's too hard to install.
It takes a month, and about 15 clean do-overs. Each individual element of hardware and eye/ear-candy is a journey of discovery (except for things like LPT ports and hard drives which "just work"). But it's worth it, because the other ones that "IJW", you don't have a clue about how to really make it work like you *want* it to work, and you have no incentive to learn. But I agree, it's hard. It takes a month, just to be able to use it, even if you are an expert in another Operating System and computers in general, and have had some Unix in college.
