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Hi guys...
I'm a
retired avionics technician, and would love to have an alternative to windoze,
and would love to try Debian.
Unfortunately, the
download methodologies and in particular, the understandability of the download
instructions and
the assumption of user
knowledge prevents me from even attempting to download Debian. I am on
disability, so my limited
income excludes
purchasing a CD from a vendor. I downloaded Jigsaw Download, and the
instructions say to run the script...
...how do you do that,
precisely?..there is no explanation. I then tried a direct image download, but
was presented with a whole list of files...do I need them all?...is there an
order in which to download them?....again, no explanation....I feel like the
attitude is one of "If you are not a geek, you aren't welcome"....I hope I
am wrong. I and several of my friends would love to try Debian, but none of us
can figure out how to even D/L the thing, let alone install and use (and
contribute to!!!) Debian.
I hope
that, in the future, a more user-friendly method of downloading Debian can be
worked out. Being a retired avionics technician, I'm fairly well
technology-savvy, so if I'm having problems, then I know others must be having
similar problems and questions. I hope that, by calling attention to this
situation, Debian may be able to streamline this process, thereby increasing
usage of your product, and increasing customer satisfaction and market
penetration.
Thankyou for your time in reading this, and I hope that I may, at some point, be
able to actually see what Debian is capable of. I'm pulling for you, because ANY
alternative to Windoze would be a definite Godsend. Good luck to you and the
Debian team.
Sicerely,
Victor
Watkins strat-man@attbi.com
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