On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:21:57PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...]
> In some sense, if you're using synaptic and a desktop environment you've > already lost a minimal install. A very good point, BTW. My daily driver has no synaptic, for example, and yet it is a far cry from a minimal install. I'm not pointing it out to boast around; rather I'm trying to drive home the point that the needs served by a distro like Debian are extremely diverse (Debian is, yet again the extreme in that camp, that's one of the reasons that there are so many derivatives; that might also explain the long and sometimes difficult discussion processes when a change touches lots of the distro's parts). This is something pretty difficult to grasp for us "mere users". Surely most of folks are using the computer the way *I* do? Well, guess what. This is, BTW, why I love Debian. Cheers -- t
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