[PLUG] Debian G/L & मी

[Amarendra Godbole]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 9:55 AM Sudhanwa Jogalekar via plug-mail
<plug-mail at plug.org.in> wrote:
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> I remember two instances of my Debian installation ages back.
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> After getting fade up for about half an hour of giving yes/no input to various questions, pressed the reset button, ejected the CD. End of install!!
>
> Another time was a surprising Hindi language choice during installation!!
> Got "कुंजीपटल चयन करे" on the screen and next step was press reset button and remove CD!!
>
> Never thought of Debian install anytime later on.

I did use Debian for a few years.. I personally liked the
terminal-based installation. It was several years though, so I don't
recall much about it.

I also ran Gentoo for a few years... the installation was atrocious,
especially building everything from source took ages. And keeping it
up-to-date as well.

When finances improved, I switched to macOS. Gives me best of both
worlds (CLI and GUI), along with a reasonable plug-and-play experience
for most peripherals. As of today, I am pretty much far away from
using Linux as my primary desktop, though do have a CentOS 9 Stream
running nearby. OpenBSD still happens to be my favorite Unix-like
distro, though it is now delegated to the firewall/router
responsibility, and excels at it.

-ag

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> On Mon, 29 Jul, 2024, 9:41 pm Shirish Bhagwat via plug-mail, <plug-mail at plug.org.in> wrote:
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>> Progress thus far ::
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>> Pleasantly disappointed with Debian Installation process
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>> Few things...
>>
>> Installation process of Mageia or Fedora & likes is much much better..
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>> Anyway not here to discuss it...
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>> After few hours I am still coping up with Debian install.
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>>
>>
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>> On 29 Jul 2024, at 11:08 am, Shirish Bhagwat via plug-mail <plug-mail at plug.org.in> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have always stayed away from Debian for some unknown reason...
>>>
>>> First it was pestering Atul Chitnis with my ignorance then joining PLUG.
>>>
>>> Fights & battles while PLUG was taking shape
>>>
>>> Then Mandrake ~ Mandriva ~ Mageia
>>>
>>> In between once or twice Manjaro , CentOS, Bodhi, and various Linux distributions tasting the new flavour of each IceCream including Debian.
>>>
>>> Today I found the reason why I avoided Debian just like Tata Zica becoming Tata Tiago.
>>>
>>> Nothing wrong from normal human & natural perspective to it.
>>>
>>> F.C. Road case only as it concerns Debian.
>>>
>>> Movie Title "Debbie Does Dallas" almost like being on twitter i.e. in the X.com zone.
>>>
>>> Why NOW.?
>>>
>>> Today installing Debian on ASUS netbook with whole heartedness w/o any remorse or inkling of NE wrong doing.
>>>
>>> ~जयहिंद
>>>
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