On Saturday 15 May 2004 5:42 pm, Graham Trott wrote:
This left me with a minimal installation, so I asked apt to find me KDE, figuring that would probably suck in everything it depends on. Almost right, but I still had to get the X system as well. After running xf86config and another couple of false starts I had KDE2 running smoothly. That's a day and a half, and not even full-time at that.
Only a day and a half to get X and KDE running? And you still didn't have the locale set or Open Office installed? Good thing it wasn't a difficult install!
I have to say the installer is just about the easiest I've ever experienced (other than on Macs), which came as a surprise considering how Debian is always touted as the geek's distro.
Like knowing how and where to set the locale, for example :-)
For comparison, most mandrake installs take about 20 mins including partitioning, installing all the above plus other stuff and configuring the network connection. Plus the time you leave it to read stuff off the DVD/CDs of course so maybe an hour and a half.
Which usually gives you a nice usable shiny system straight out of the box - but maybe that's no fun :-)
Syd