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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For me worked:

  • Install Debian
  • be confused by all the options in the installation process, look up every unknown word, try to do everything manualy, fail
  • start installation process again, choose all the defaults, works!
  • trying to install a programm with terminal, fail because not in sudo list, look up how to get into sudo list
  • update in terminal doesn't work, have to remove some lines in /etc/apt/sources.list - look up how to use the text editor nano, look many yt-videos about Linux filesystem (what to those folders mean? Everything is a file?)
  • try to resize a partition (can't remember which), can't, because I didn't choose LVM in installation process - install Debian again, and do all the steps above again

I think I had to reinstall Debian 5 more times after that, just because I didn't know what I was doing and it was an easy reset for me.

Very frustraiting at times, and a very rewarding feeling when something worked. Made me love tech again, 10/10 would do again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Really threw yourself into the deep end there, nice. Hashtags team debian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Also, get the updated kernel out of the backports repo as the main repo is pretty far behind in my opinion. I needed 6.5+ to get the hardware compatibility for some stuff and then I more or less had an out of box experience. I also highly recommend having your /home on a separate partition or drive. This way you can keep your user files if you ever want to change or reinstall the OS.

Don't feel bad about messing up the install. Everyone fucks it up a few times. The best one I did was forget to make the user account AND did not set a root password. Thou shall not install things at 2am...