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    What’s Debian based on again? I think it was some earlier variant of Ubuntu

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Then they don't need to use Debian. There are plenty of user friendly options. Debians installer is kind of bad but that doesn't mean Debian is bad.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Why debian installer is bad? Literaly press okay to almost everything and you got installed

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can't disable root and tasksel may be confusing to some.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Why would you want to disable root?

    Remote root login is disabled by default, local root disabeling is useless anyway, as when you have acdess to the physical system you can break it open anyway.

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

    Because sudo exists and is way better for so many reasons.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    It's a better way, but not fool proof. I always keep root available for console login. (Saves booting from external media when there is an issue) For the rest, sudo is perfect though, but it doesn't replace root login in 100% of the situations.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    What is bad about it? It's as fool proof as the RedHat installer, unless you go to the expert text mode one. (And even that is pretty straight forward)