Update on Debian Install Images

Debian has vast array of Images.

1. My recommendation for newbie is to go and download  Live Image with different Desktops from Gnome to Cinnamon to Xfce to Mate and to a few more.

 

One can write this to a USB.

 

On a Linux Desktop it automatically goes to the Image Writer mode.

 

Alternatively, one can write this to a DVD. and boot it from an old PC that does not have USB booting.

2. Then there are Images for various platforms aMD and aRM, PPC and so on.

3. Then there are 20 odd DVDs.

They are source code and do not boot from USBs.

If you write the first DVD to a DVD, I think one can install. 

I have not tried DVD method but I know it cannot be booted from a USB.

Connection to the Internet is vital.

Image in my USB was 6.2.0.18 (an old image).

On installation with WiFi connected it selected current 6.7.0....

The current Testing image is 6.7.0.....

Debian has 9 sub partitions.

I use that schedule but I have never tried on a single partition.

/root

/ boot

/home

/tmp

 

The above partition schedule with SWAP partition twice as the RAM is ideal or minimum schedule.

If dual booting backing up your data is an optional consideration (not for me) but mandatory for some.

Once installed one should run it several trial runs, so that Debian will automatically update its files.

 

Be patient when updating is going on.

Then one can install one's favorite applications either with SNAP store or Synaptic Package Manager.

 

I prefer Synaptic, it is really the Debian Package Manager.

Well I have 3 images installed in my NUC.

1. one for daily use.

2. One for testing.

3. The third is for the Testing Branch 

Large DVD version has many types of desktops and one should not TRY KDE Plasma (files missing).

Installation hang up at the last moment when KDE is selected during (the Testing Branch DVD).

Go and s visit the Debian page for specific information.

KDE Plasma in Debian Failed Again

This in not the first time but for 3rd time KDE Plasma failed when installing Debian.

1. First with Debian Testing.

2. Second with Debian Gnome using Synaptic Package Manager.

3. Today with Debian 12.5.0, Starter CD1.

It seems it has nearly 1000 files and probably it uses 1200MB memory.

Last time I saw it failing with a Perl package at the end.

 

I even tried installing on only text mode to SEE on which package it get stuck.

 

KDE is the base for SuSe and Redhat and their community guys either deliberately or due to carelessness released a broken KDE system.

I just wanted to see how Plasma was getting on.

I use Gnome and did not bother testing it for over a decade.

I had a 67GB extra space in my NUC hard drive and tested KDE with MATE and Gnome. 

It failed.

I think KDE tried to emulate Windows and that is their Failure Strategy.

 

Windows actually started in 1980s and I had an article on how window frames were developed in a commuter journal of early days.

Windows was a late adoption.

What it means is Windows within Windows, In early day RAM was the limiting factor and it could not handle Windows within Windows.

Whereas, Window Maker of Linux handled this to this day marvelously.

In fact there are several light weight Window makers which I have under Gnome hood.

Blackbox

Flushbox

Pekwm

IceWarm

and may more.

Windows within Windows of KDE and Plasma are also failures of memory control.

That is why I do not use KDE.

Linux kernel has 23 million lines of code.

I bet KDE / Plama probably has 100 million or trillion of coding, I believe.

What it should do is to cut it down to 50 millilon line of code.

Even then it cannot match original Window Maker of Linux. 

 

By the way, I have three versions of Gnome in my hard disk of 320GN all are working fine.