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    The installation process of different Linux distributions (feddit.de)
    submitted 6 months ago by e8d79@feddit.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    totally anecdotal.... but i've installed debian on a bunch of different machines and i've never had to "prepare additional installation media" for any weird hardware/firmware/drivers.... i just installed the base system and connected ethernet if any non-free stuff is needed. has anyone ever come across an ethernet interface that didn't work out of the box? maybe it didn't work 100%, but at least good enough to download the proper firmware to fix?

    [–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Some wifi drivers. It's because of the Debian philosophy of never using non-free (as in speech, not beer) software.

    [–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Thats why i said you just need a few minutes on ethernet.... Although i can see the problem these days with a lot of laptops shipping without ethernet ports

    [–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

    These days Debian ship with non-free firmware in the default installer, so laptops without ethernet isn't a problem.

    [–] femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 6 months ago

    If you know what your doing you can install arch faster than debian or fedora

    [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago

    If you disable cache.nixos.org you too can have gentoo but with nixos 😏

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