Hi On 02.05.2016 00:02, Christoph Trunk wrote: > I have just put Debian (unexpectedly) on my list of unusable, awkward > and/or unmanageable Linux distributions. >
Err, the Debian Live CD was one of many project under the "Debian umbrella" and is currently not maintained (as far as I know). > The short version: I cannot even start using Debian, you keep me from > trying. > Well, within the first three hits in a web search I just got: user: user password: live > The long version: Your live-CDs and live-CDs seem to regularly request a > username and a password. This is something I have never encountered with > other Linux distributions. > There are quite a few which offer password as well as non-password Live CDs, but you are right most do not. > Even when I seem to have solved that problem (via a laptop running > parallel to my computer), I only get to the console level. With no > instructions how to proceed. > > This is, let's say, rather unusual. Well, I could reply to that, that the regular Linux environment *is* the shell and a GUI is sitting on top of that. But for just looking, you could try Knoppix (Debian based IIRC): http://www.knoppix.org/ It comes with a lean GUI which may hel getting you started. Cheers Carsten
