Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 11, 2005 03:41 AM
More seriously, to get a graphical desktop, users must know the system's video card so that they can choose an xserver. Admittedly, the default of vesa should work on most systems. Yet, since the installer neither autodetects the video card nor makes any provision for testing the selection, a mistake means either downloading another package and editing the configuration file from the command line or -- more likely for a newcomer -- restarting from scratch.
This is absolutely unacceptable in 2005! Not at a time when Knoppix and others can easily detect and test a videocard, when ALL other major distros have sophisticated hardware detection and configuration scripts.
I am very sympathetic to Debian and the folks maintaining and developing it, but as long as they persist in their geek-oriented tool development policy I will not be able to reccommend Debian to my friends.
Calling text-based installer which does not detect hardware "new" in 2005 really is symptomatic of a deep problem.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 11, 2005 03:41 AMThis is absolutely unacceptable in 2005! Not at a time when Knoppix and others can easily detect and test a videocard, when ALL other major distros have sophisticated hardware detection and configuration scripts.
I am very sympathetic to Debian and the folks maintaining and developing it, but as long as they persist in their geek-oriented tool development policy I will not be able to reccommend Debian to my friends.
Calling text-based installer which does not detect hardware "new" in 2005 really is symptomatic of a deep problem.
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