for once i'd agree that a kali newb is a good thing...Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Don't his friends watch Mr. Robot?
Tell them that hackers use Debian
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Do you help relatives & friends to use a Debian desktop?
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Re: Do you help relatives & friends to use a Debian desktop?
I am pretty confident that the time when my son will go to the school we finally have a superior floss graphic stack available for Gnu & Linux (and maybe even for Gnu Hurd)...Crewp wrote:I have my eighty year old mom using it, and my sister they seem to be happy with it. I had my nephew using it but his friends said he needs to use Windows 10 like everybody else. Oh well.
Re: Do you help relatives & friends to use a Debian desktop?
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Don't his friends watch Mr. Robot?Crewp wrote:I had my nephew using it but his friends said he needs to use Windows 10 like everybody else. Oh well.
Tell them that hackers use Debian
Hmmm...always thought that was Slackware
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Laptops: HP 250 G6 i3 7th gen + Lenovo: Debian Testing XFCE
HP based chromebooks: Debian Testing and other variations
"The simple reality of the matter is that Debian is essentially the backbone of Linux - for all practical purposes."
HP based chromebooks: Debian Testing and other variations
"The simple reality of the matter is that Debian is essentially the backbone of Linux - for all practical purposes."
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So, is that why you don't use Gnome anymore?woteb wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8V-aaM_hjA
Or... am I in the wrong thread?
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Re: Do you help relatives & friends to use a Debian desktop?
Maybe this thread is beginning to wander off topic and is in danger of being locked...
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Some friends an relatives are complete noobs. These persons are very happy now with a very robust Debian system I installed for them. All these systems have 4 partitions, sda1 for the system and programms, sda2 for /home, sda3 swap and sda4 for rescue. On the rescue partition are the image from sda1 and manual installed packages and install scripts located. The image is made from a Debian USB stick with partimage.
A copy from these images is stored on my USB hard drive.
And I'm using XFCE and Openbox
A copy from these images is stored on my USB hard drive.
And I'm using XFCE and Openbox
Laptops: HP 250 G6 i3 7th gen + Lenovo: Debian Testing XFCE
HP based chromebooks: Debian Testing and other variations
"The simple reality of the matter is that Debian is essentially the backbone of Linux - for all practical purposes."
HP based chromebooks: Debian Testing and other variations
"The simple reality of the matter is that Debian is essentially the backbone of Linux - for all practical purposes."
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I'm slowly forcing people do adapt. I'm the goto computer guy in the family and since I haven't really bothered with Windows since XP I try to push them over to Debian. My mom and her husband is getting an old (Dell d620 C2D 3GB ram) spare laptop I have here with Debian and Xfce. My ex hates anything after XP so she's getting Xfce too. And my sistsers' mom is getting a spare Thinkpad T43 with... Xfce and firefox to have in the kitchen. I rather give them my old junk than supporting iOS or something.
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