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Re: unusability issues



Hi

On 02.05.2016 00:02, Christoph Trunk wrote:
> I have just put Debian (unexpectedly) on my list of unusable, awkward
> and/or unmanageable Linux distributions.
> 

Err, the Debian Live CD was one of many project under the "Debian
umbrella" and is currently not maintained (as far as I know).

> The short version: I cannot even start using Debian, you keep me from
> trying.
> 

Well, within the first three hits in a web search I just got:

user: user
password: live

> The long version: Your live-CDs and live-CDs seem to regularly request a
> username and a password. This is something I have never encountered with
> other Linux distributions.
> 

There are quite a few which offer password as well as non-password Live
CDs, but you are right most do not.

> Even when I seem to have solved that problem (via a laptop running
> parallel to my computer), I only get to the console level. With no
> instructions how to proceed.
> 
> This is, let's say, rather unusual.

Well, I could reply to that, that the regular Linux environment *is* the
shell and a GUI is sitting on top of that.

But for just looking, you could try Knoppix (Debian based IIRC):

http://www.knoppix.org/

It comes with a lean GUI which may hel getting you started.

Cheers

Carsten


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