After a nightmarish day after installing Debian 12 (32bit); I thought I'd go and do the checksums before continuing- just in case an OS that seemed like a nasty practical joke actually was one. The info. on how to do the checksum in Debian.org; in practical terms seems meaningless; I was fatigued after reading maybe fifty pages from ChatGPT and inserting dozens of command lines; mostly trying to get a Clipboard manager that was findable and usable (no success whatsoever) but after a break I thought I'd do something that was likely well documented. I understand that most people don't bother and many of those probably take a quick look at most guides and make the smart move not to attempt it. Perhaps this is why the guidance is so lacking and with presumed knowledge.
I'd be interested to know whether anyone on the planet has ever waded through their guide and made sense of it in less than three hours; maybe AI could help but it's dubious when it comes to obscure IT info. and especially where the info. on the Internet is ambiguous/wrong/missing many important details etc. I think I can appreciate that for a relatively new user the best approach would be to allocate many days (at say 90 mins per day) to install something like Debian successfully and day one might be for the Checksums alone - although two days is more likely considering the extensive searching likely req'd for this secret information.
I'd be interested to know whether anyone on the planet has ever waded through their guide and made sense of it in less than three hours; maybe AI could help but it's dubious when it comes to obscure IT info. and especially where the info. on the Internet is ambiguous/wrong/missing many important details etc. I think I can appreciate that for a relatively new user the best approach would be to allocate many days (at say 90 mins per day) to install something like Debian successfully and day one might be for the Checksums alone - although two days is more likely considering the extensive searching likely req'd for this secret information.
Statistics: Posted by dech — 2024-12-05 08:09 — Replies 1 — Views 62