Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/24/2018 01:26 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 02:51:27PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: Why is anybody replying to this? It's quite clearly a drive-by complaint. The OP is *not* going to listen to advice or hear offers of help. They won't get them - they're not subbed

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-24, Fekete Tamás wrote: > > And stop telling us that the OS is crap. In turn, you made the impression > that you are a negative person, but just because of this I will not go to > your home and your neighborhood to tell you are a(n) ... > It's only water off

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Fekete Tamás
To the original sender (Chris Anderson), we have a huge community. If you don't feel comfortable with this product switch back to something which better fit to your needs. And stop telling us that the OS is crap. In turn, you made the impression that you are a negative person, but just because

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:26:38 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Hello Roberto, >good responses are better than nothing in this case. Good arguments, but I'm afraid vague won't do for help in the future. Things will have changed, including Debian's installer. One thing does

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 02:51:27PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > Why is anybody replying to this? > > It's quite clearly a drive-by complaint. The OP is *not* going to > listen to advice or hear offers of help. They won't get them - they're > not subbed to the list. > There are those who will

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread André Verwijs
true, is not as stable and user friendly as (k)ubuntu or Opensuse, but it works. André Op 24-3-2018 om 14:44 schreef Eike Lantzsch: > On Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:01:13 PM -03 Chris Anderson wrote: >> Hello >> >> I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 >>

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Brad Rogers
Why is anybody replying to this? It's quite clearly a drive-by complaint. The OP is *not* going to listen to advice or hear offers of help. They won't get them - they're not subbed to the list. Even if we could go to their home and help set it up, they'd not be interested because that would

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Hans
Hi there! Since DOS 6.0 and later in SuSE and Debian I learnd one thing: Whenever things do not work, it is mostly my own fault. So, when I hear "It's not working!" or hardwer "This one sucks!", then the op mostly means "I do not know, how to fix it!" or harder "I am too stupid and not

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 03/23/2018 08:31 PM, Chris Anderson wrote: Hello I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen different flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system for slackware but I managed

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:01:13 PM -03 Chris Anderson wrote: > Hello > > I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 > years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen > different flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system > for

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > I guess its one of those brain fucked idiots Although I realy agree with you, I don't think your tone is by any means better, and you should instead lead by example and not insult anyone on a Debian mailing list even if you are angry. Cheers, Nik signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread deloptes
Dominik George wrote: > I think the main problem here is that the user considers himself too > much of an expert and stops seeing the easy things, like the step in the > installer asking explicitly for the desktop environment to install. It's > right there, but they are too l33t to simply open

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread deloptes
Chris Anderson wrote: > Nearly everything fucked up from the Network install to the gcc make > command, what a hassle and after spending nearly a week trying to get it > all working I've had enough and am not wasting any more of my time on > this awful software. > > So thanks for wasting my time

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 02:01:13PM +1030, Chris Anderson wrote: > Hello > > I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 > years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen different > flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system for

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread songbird
Chris Anderson wrote: > Hello ... sounds like these mistakes: - not using a netinst - not reading the installation guide so sorry... songbird

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Dominik George
> In the Free Software world, the response to something not > working is generally: > 1)If you know how, fix it and send the fix to the project so > it helps everyone, or, > 2)If you don't know how to fix it, report the problem in a > useful way, so someone else can fix it and help everyone. I

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Carl
On 03/23/2018 11:31 PM, Chris Anderson wrote: Hello I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen different flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system for slackware but I managed

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-03-24 03:31, Chris Anderson wrote: Hello I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen different flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system for slackware but I managed to get

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Good morning Forest, Am 2018-03-24 hackte Forest in die Tasten: > Even the BOFH went commercial! > http://www.bofharchive.com/ > > And you think LILO is bad; wait; till you get to systemd. :) Hahaha, you made the day! > Did I mention lvm and kvm? ROTFL > Best regard > Forest Have a nice

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Chris, Am 2018-03-24 hackte Chris Anderson in die Tasten: > Last week I bought a new PC and decided to try debian so I downloaded > the DVD version 9 and performed a fresh install besides windows 10. This works generaly nicely, because i have it on my ThinkPad T400 too. However, with Windows

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-23 Thread Forest
On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 14:01 +1030, Chris Anderson wrote: > Hello > > > So thanks for wasting my time Debian and for future reference, go > and  > get fucked!!! > > > Chris Anderson > > Even the BOFH went commercial! http://www.bofharchive.com/ And you think LILO is bad; wait; till you get

Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-23 Thread Chris Anderson
Hello I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen different flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system for slackware but I managed to get it installed and running with no