Hello everyone involved with debian,

Sorry If this is going to the wrong place. I think good news is seldom 
reported, and this operating system is really good. I left the linux world and 
went to MacOS for about 10 years. All was great until those operating systems 
went free, selling out users personal info, rather than charging for the OS. In 
terms of linux, I did some reading before choosing Debian. I came from the 
slackware, then Red Hat for most of the 1990s, when I was a telecom engineer. I 
liked Red Hat the best until they went commercial.

Fast forward to today, other than some difficulty getting used to the install 
tools, this OS is faster, more reliable, and has just about everything you 
could ever want from an OS. Yes, security is my one concern, and that is 
largely a fault of the IP protocol, and network equipment more than operating 
systems. Yes it could all get better. Debian is very good right now. Thanks for 
making this, and keeping the interests of the individuals, over selling out to 
governments, and corporate advertisers. Be assured there are millions out 
there, who should thank you personally, and will not likely have the time to do 
so.

Sean

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I do have some useful information to pass on.

I recently went to a 2 SSD SATA bus in a 2010 Macbookpro. I experienced a lot 
of difficulty getting MacOS to boot on the first one, and Debian on the larger 
second one. I was able to resolve this by paying attention to the EFI Fat32 
partition on the original disk, I noticed I could create one of these on the 
second disk, so I did. What happened surprised me. I no longer have to hit 
option to boot on the second SSD for Debian. I do have to hit option to run 
MacOS, and I am OK with that.

I have noticed a lot of dual boot suffering on the internet, and I think 
instructions could be made that cover more bases on this topic. Bottom line, 
Grub does do a great job, if you take some time and experiment with machines 
that can be reloaded again.

A potential bug with the partitioning tool for debian, is that the EFI boot 
option to create, is not there on a single disk system, if one already exists. 
I read that making these larger than they originally came, by about double is 
recommended some places. When I tried to recreate a larger one, I noticed the 
option to create a new EFI was gone! I went back to the main menu, and did not 
write those changes and recovered fine.

I hope this helps.

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