Hi, Le 12/01/2021 à 17:14, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2021-01-12 16:36 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 02:48:22PM +0000, Dan Pal wrote: >>> Hello Debian Developers, >> >> Hello World, >> >> >>> I am writing to you from my Debian-Buster 10.6 laptop – that used >>> to be a Windows 10 laptop. I would not be using Debian at all except I >>> was able to find a dvd version at debian.org to install. I couldn’t >>> install from a net install version because of my wireless chipset not >>> being supported directly by Debian. The current policy of hiding other >>> versions of Debian is limiting the adoption of your OS by people like >>> me who are interested in moving from Windows 10. >> >> Seen the "I think it could be better", not yet seen the "how" >> >> >> Please elaborate the improvement. > > Provide a way to discover the working netinst with non-free firmware, > right now it seems to be impossible to find. > > The official netinst image advertised on the homepage is for servers and > virtual machines only. How is an average user of Windows or even other > GNU/Linux distributions supposed to know that official Debian images do > not offer network access during installation on desktops and laptops? > > Cheers, > Sven > Maybe by adding a "Other" link under the big Download link pointing to other places ? For example see attachment with "Other architectures and options" linking to: https://www.debian.org/distrib/ And maybe add a link from https://www.debian.org/distrib/ to images with non-free firmwares -- Alexis Murzeau PGP: B7E6 0EBB 9293 7B06 BDBC 2787 E7BD 1904 F480 937F |
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