I'm just a user, but:
Thank you.
Andrew Cater wrote:Separately, we also had a quick think about the numbers of iso images in general. A suggestion: For the future, we should produce physical media for the netinst.iso, the first DVD image in any set and one larger image to be written to a USB stick if wanted - and corresponding source for each size. All other .iso files to be distributed as .jigdo and .template files.In most instances, the netinst is enough, if you have network connectivity and bandwidth. The DVD is enough to install the basis of any of the graphical environments readily. This does not mean that you couldn't produce every other image - but very few people are on a desert island and need every piece of software Debian has produced on physical media.At this point in 2020, I think it would be reasonable to only produce netinst images and jigdo (and live, but that's a different-ish project). Drop the DVD images. All of my installs in the last six years have either been via a USB netinst image or PXE. New laptops and desktops are generally shipping without optical drives at all. My oldest non-toy hardware can boot via USB. -dsr-