said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users: | On Sunday 19 March 2023 05.02:16 dep via tde-users wrote: | > Between the parsimonious | > default packages in Debian -- "locate" is not installed by default | | Yeah, that's what I like :) | I don't use sudo Problem with that is that you need then to do things such as "xhost + localhost" if you want to su and run anything graphical, and so on. I find "locate" useful. And to revive "shutdown," which yeah, I know, is now a symlink anyway, you have to make a symlink. It's a little like needing to go downstairs and fire up the boiler to get hot water, when for a long while it just came when you turn on the faucet. In short, there's a missing document: "Things you're probably used to, how to regain them, and why we left them out." Not really complaining: after the Trisquel -- I want to write Trisquet -- encounter, Debian seems positively libertine: during the install it flashed the "sorry, but we're going to use a non-free wifi driver" and then just did it. The Debian install was the easiest installation from scratch I've ever done. | But I seem to remember a Debian installer that asked if I wanted to | install it. The installation DVD image listed a half-dozen installers; I picked the graphical one just to see what horrors a Debian graphical installer might bring. There were only a couple of places where the answer wouldn't have been evident to a seven-year-old and the only critical one was in disk partitioning, which defaults to one partition for the whole thing. (There were a couple of slightly obscure ones as well, but nothing where the defaults were likely to break anything. I did opt in to the phone-home popularity contest, because I figure it's good they know that people are putting TDE on Debian.) But there was no place where I was given a choice of packages to install. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
