Jonathan Purvis wrote:
I'd recommend against new users running Debian (dispite my running in at work and home) for the following reasons:
* Unstable is unstable[1] and stable is very out of date at the moment
* X configuration is horrible/non-existant * If you forget to load the module for your network card early on in the installer, it won't ask you for network configuration and you'll have to spend half an hour hunting down the required configuration files * dselect lets you remove dpkg
I'd tend to agree with these points, I personally run debian and and had forgotten these things as stuff long gone but from a new user these are quite possibly relative points. That being said some of these points may not be such an issue on a pre-installed machine