Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > In the real world, nobody I know has got any sort of GNU/Linux
> > > installed and working in a few days. Most have tried and given up
> > > after a weekend or two, going back to a Microsoft system. Those few
> > > who have managed have, like me, endured weeks of drudgery. Only on
> > > internet blogs do I read "Wow!" reports about how it works perfectly
> > > an hour and a half after inserting the installation DVD.
>
> > Well, my first Debian installation was from a pile of floppies, so I'm
> > not going to be able to comment intelligently on how hard or easy today's
> > process is.
>
> :-) That appears somewhat evasive.
Only in the sense that I don't want to get into a pointless
argu^H^H^H^Hdiscussion about the totally subjective question of whether
installing Debian is "hard" for two different people with different
skills and requirements (namely you and me), especially when I don't
work on the installation system and I can't fix any of your problems for
you. Moreover, it's been ten years since I installed Debian for the
first time and I don't trust my memory to tell me precisely what the
conditions were at the time or how long it took me. A few things I do
remember having trouble with, like getting basic access to email (which
required configuring an MTA), getting X working, and getting a printer
hooked up, are so easy nowadays that it's barely worth remarking on them.
Daniel
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