Debian hit and miss
 

I always struggle between pure Debian and Mint Debian mainly due to one reason, the user friendliness. On Debian there is no GUI frontend for some often used applications such as printer setting, language settings, and without a software manager like on the Mint. I checked and couldn't find a replacement for the "primitive" Synaptic, I know it is a powerful tool, but quite inconvenient to install multiple apps at a time when compare with the Mint one, I wonder why after all these years nothing has changed, it is just a GUI frontend ? beside that, some useful little tools such as USB formatter/image writer also missing.

On the otherhand, Mint Debian is highly polished and bug fix version of the original Debian, most applications run without hiccup, and the updater will give warning if something would break during update, allow user a second thought.

Any comment ?

Well, there's tasksel if you want a bloated experience from the get go. Although I partially agree in that the just enough-ness of debian isn't something I install for anybody other than myself. But I was stuck on dialup probably a decade longer than I should have been. And other annoyances that disqualify every other distro except debian.

So use Mint and be happy.
You can have all that cruft in Debian too if you want, but thankfully, those that don't can also avoid it.

Depends on the DE\WM or if you can add the GUI's you seek to your choice... best yet: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/u...y-live-builds/

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...3/#post5713258
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post5708518
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post5724204 &c. :hattip:

I have a GUI to everything you mentioned under KDE\Gnome and adding some stuff is likely needed in Debian eg: Attachment 25286

IMH(admin)O
if a user needs microcoughed-losedough$ or Mint\Ubuntu|* they should be paying someone to do certain things for them or just put your credit card here: ______________ __\__ ___. :p

Just now I reinstall Stretch and got error while updating :

Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/s...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 54.239.130.251 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Is it only me ?

Go into Synaptic > settings > repositories > other sources or /etc/apt/sources.list and remove conflicting...

• https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/...list.5.en.html
• https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
• http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-so...generator.html \\\ https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/s...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 54.239.130.251 80]

Sometimes the servers get bogged down. Try again in five minutes (or 30). Or change that to httpredir.debian.org to "choose" a mirror instead of deb.debian.org. In /etc/apt/sources.list

As long as the networking is up this page n links may help?: https://www.debian.org/mirror/list

This. Ubuntu and Mint exist so Debian doesn't have to add cruft. I actually run Debian because the fancy GUI front ends on Ubuntu and Mint tended to make things more difficult so I realised I didn't need them and switched. Plus, even I who like to try new applications, tools and settings all the time don't spend all my time installing Debian, setting up printing and WiFi and then installing lots of applications at once (if I did I'd still rather use the command line but that's another story).

That's how I feel about Gnome and\or so :newbie:s can't brake as much... :D

I would consider http://localhost:631 a graphical interface for printers, and it's distro independent.

Just my two cents.

or what frank said

My roommate has a wifi printer, half the time it works here in KDE stretch/sid the other half I just login to Gnome... not that I ever want to or print! :doh:

With GNOME as the default DE, it does offer a "user-friendly" and very "app-store" looking package manager:

http://oi66.tinypic.com/21oq6pu.jpg

http://oi63.tinypic.com/14rzvt.jpg

Including a huge set of shell add-ons (in collaboration with Ubuntu):

http://oi63.tinypic.com/2w739g9.jpg