Re: ISO download difficult (was: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint))

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 05:10:37PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > > Currently the stable amd64 netinst is linked from the front page (top
> > > right corner).
> >
> > It is, indeed. Never saw it before...
> It's a relatively recent improvement.

Well, I hadn't seen it, without you pointing me to it.

> > > Of course, the stable amd64 netinst is useful only for VMs.
> >
> > Why?
> It doesn't contain non-free firmware.

OK, but that's an exaggeration. More often than not I was
able to install Debian without non-free firmware. But YMMV.