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might install debian soonish

let's go

if you choose English as your language the Debian installer assumes you probably live in one of: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Botswana, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US, Zambia, Zimbabwe

there is no en_SE.UTF-8 locale 😭

Why do the fucking Israelis (who do NOT have English as an official language!!) get an English locale but not Sweden fuck you

there are several things I do not like about the Debian installer.

breaking the long tradition of using nanoha characters as names for our personal computing devices and naming this one yumewatari

the way the Go Back button in the Debian installer boots you to a list of named sections of the installer rather than going back to the immediately preceding screen is absolutely hateful. particularly because each section is several screens so now i have to redo steps??? fuck off

why does it ask for a domain name and for god's sake why do they not mention that leaving it blank is possible and what a normal user should do

oh god why does the partitioning UI suck so much

tragically realising that Ubuntu actually adds a lot of value on top of Debian :(

why is the installer writing 1TiB of random garbage to the SSD to prevent “meta-information leaks”. this is not good for SSD health what the fuck

upset enough at how bad the partitioning experience is that i'm holding up a middle finger to it all and just making a single ext4 partition without encryption and i will set up some kind of encrypted home directory bullshit later (that way i can be sure it won't ruin the SSD)

the Debian installer is letting us pick between GNOME, Xfce, GNOME Flashback, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQt. what a selection! we hadn't heard of GNOME Flashback but it sounds ideal (GNOME 3 but it feels a bit more like GNOME 2) so i guess i'll check that out

installing the bootloader failed and the setup is now stuck on a hilarious screen telling me to insert a DVD into /media/cdrom/ despite the installer not having been booted from an optical disc and no optical disc drive being present

i think we might have to manually relocate the EFI system partition 🥴

!!! okay the install worked on the second attempt, without doing anything scary! I think problem before was that the Debian installer doesn't know what to do if there are two EFI system partitions. now you may ask "why the fuck were there two"… it was the installer's idea lmao

it really requires the work of a genius to write an installer that, when presented with a disk that already has an EFI system partition and when asked to install in unpartitioned space, decides to add another EFI system partition, then shits itself trying to install the bootloader

aaaaahahaha because we installed Debian from the “DVD” and didn't choose to enable using a mirror during setup, the installed system has no apt sources other than the “DVD” configured, so apt update does nothing, software updates don't exist and we can hardly install shit!

Ubuntu at least has a nice GUI for fixing this problem. no such luck on Debian

god i can't fucking believe how bad the Debian install experience is you guys

GNOME Flashback:

❤️ the desktop layout is the familiar, comfy old GNOME 2 one
💖 unlike GNOME 2, icons dragged onto the panel left-align rather than getting stuck at the exact pixel you dragged them to
🥴 you will NEVER guess the key+mouse combo for removing icons from the panel

oh sick the default media player on Debian supports SSA/ASS subtitles

back on my bullshit