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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

It's recommended to run a ‘live usb’ first to see if there are any problems with hardware compatibility. Nowadays many distros have their installers as live usbs anyway, but idk about Debian.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Debian is weird in even having non-live ISOs, but they do have various live ones with different desktops! (Don't grab the one from the homepage, grab one of the live ones instead.)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Debian is weird in even having non-live ISOs

    I see the model of ‘burn seven dvds to then have every package under the sun’ is alive and well.

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    And honestly, in the coming age of "OSes that don't spy on you will be illegal!!", I'm really, really glad for that. We've got the entire 27-ISO set of Debian 13.0.0 squirreled away. There's even more discs for the sources, and they go to great lengths to ensure that everything can be built with no external dependencies that aren't available in the archive.

    Debian: It's Apocalypse-Proof.™

    -- Frost

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