I like that Debian doesn't make too many decisions on behalf of the user. It helps to preserve Debian's universality. And if the cost of that is that users need to go the extra step to understand how things work, it isn't a bad thing. Although perhaps the setup dialogue could say something like "omit entering a root password to automatically configure the standard user under sudoers".As much as I'd like to point every new user to Debian (I don't care for the middle-men), there are just too many things that require...figuring out. Like the install itself being "corrupted": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrRT4rmmoNQ
Then there are common things that won't work out of the box like user not in sudo, missing components like gvfs-backends (it's been a while) that will "break" stuff until you figure out what random thing is missing.
For a new person, I'd still have to point them at MX Linux, kind of a "pre-configured Debian".
Statistics: Posted by Uptorn — 2024-01-28 06:01
