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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why wait? Debian is out there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for reminding me! I installed an arch chroot so I can learn and play with Arch btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I use DOS but not MS-DOS because the MS actually stands for Microsoft. Plus it comes with Dark Mode built-in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Honestly? Because the last time I tried it, which was admittedly about a decade ago, it didn't work. People say RTFM, but TFM was just wrong/incomplete.

I would run into a show stopper problem, and the manual would say "follow these steps to make it work". Then, two steps in, the manual diverges from reality - doing what the manual says, would not lead to the machine state that the manual claims it would lead to.

Its not an issue that's unique to Debain. I tried a handful of distros and they all had the same kind of dealbreaker problems that could not be resolved by RTFM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

To be fair, it's during this decade when Linux became A LOT more friendly to non-technical people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Cachyos, its a graphical installer, its easy af, its automatic