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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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Opinionated Debian Installer (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello debian lemmies,

If anybody is interested, I've made an alternative debian installer targeted for laptops and workstation PCs. It has some nifty features over the official installer, have a look.

https://github.com/r0b0/debian-installer

Comments are welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is very nice, love the fact that you're picking btrfs and systemd-boot as your defaults. I hope GNOME guys get over their own as*s and add systemd-networkd support so you can do the same.

[–] lemmy_nightmare 1 points 2 years ago

This looks good. Nice going there.

[–] noisypine 1 points 2 years ago

Personally, I prefer setting up without backports and non-free and enabling them as needed. That said, I think the default should be more like your installer. New and inexperienced users are not going to know how to setup backports or enable non-free, or even know they exist. Nice job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's super cool. Thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For btrfs how does the subvolume layout look? For example in ubuntu it has @ and @home which is very convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, @ and @home

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thats great tnx

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there plans to add other cpu support?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Such as?

i386? meh.

arm64? I am a big fan, if there was a viable laptop/workstation PC with a good linux support, I would be first in line to buy one. Apple silicon? Last time I checked, it kind of works with a dedicated distro (asahi) and half of the things I take for granted doesn't work yet (such as external monitor.)