Hi,
Just like registering in this forum, where a strong password was required to have access a forum of posts, no sensitive data, in the same fashion as I was registering at a bank or the IRS site, so is Debian 12.5 I have been dealing in the last two days, with persistent errors in defining user account passwords, with unsaid and unwritten requirements, which forced me to uncomment several lines of the pwquality.conf configuration file in order to accept my password, software like Skype that didn't work well after the flatpak installation, forcing me to uninstall it and reinstall it with Snaps, the whole OS running too slow in a 2014 desktop computer, etc., just a nightmare.
This was not a computer where I could choose what to install, but someone who asked me to do it, replacing the existing Windows 7 OS. Debian 12.5 was my choice but I will have to decide to keep it or replace with another gnu/linux OS more suitable.
I even had to deal with the vi text editor for the first time (I usually use nano, gedit or mousepad), it was almost a traumatic experience, a program where you press a normal key of the keyboard and if the program is in "command mode" you do something to the file you are editing instead of entering text, only a complicated mind could envision such software.
In the last two days I could more than any time before understand why gnu/linux has a so low acceptance. It lacks the daily feedback of regular non-tech users.
Just like registering in this forum, where a strong password was required to have access a forum of posts, no sensitive data, in the same fashion as I was registering at a bank or the IRS site, so is Debian 12.5 I have been dealing in the last two days, with persistent errors in defining user account passwords, with unsaid and unwritten requirements, which forced me to uncomment several lines of the pwquality.conf configuration file in order to accept my password, software like Skype that didn't work well after the flatpak installation, forcing me to uninstall it and reinstall it with Snaps, the whole OS running too slow in a 2014 desktop computer, etc., just a nightmare.
This was not a computer where I could choose what to install, but someone who asked me to do it, replacing the existing Windows 7 OS. Debian 12.5 was my choice but I will have to decide to keep it or replace with another gnu/linux OS more suitable.
I even had to deal with the vi text editor for the first time (I usually use nano, gedit or mousepad), it was almost a traumatic experience, a program where you press a normal key of the keyboard and if the program is in "command mode" you do something to the file you are editing instead of entering text, only a complicated mind could envision such software.
In the last two days I could more than any time before understand why gnu/linux has a so low acceptance. It lacks the daily feedback of regular non-tech users.
Statistics: Posted by rpt — 2024-04-01 18:27 — Replies 7 — Views 236