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Thu 2005-06-09 18:49 |
I've never had *huge* problems with Debian, though I've mostly used dselect rather than the CLI utils, mainly because it's more obvious how they work. The one complaint I'd make about the CLI stuff is that the only usable documentation is asking people who've done it before, because the man/info pages tell you *NOTHING* useful. Have these guys never heard of use-cases?
The main problem I've had is the fact that the netinst or CD installers seem to be perfectly capable of autodetecting whatever hardware you've got, then using any old random NIC to download the rest of the system, but at some point you're asked to manually configure the hardware drivers you want installed. FFS! I DON'T KNOW WHAT MY NETWORK CARD IS! YOU DO! Stop asking me, just use whatever it is you're already using, I don't care, but if you force me to enter it manually (and it just doesn't work after rebooting if you don't) then I'm going to have to unscrew the case to figure it out. |
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