I’ve only had bad experiences with debian. First off the installer is broken, second apt is a fucking mess compared to the best package manager, emerge, and third I’ve had bootloader issues(or lack of bootloader issues) when trying to install.
Are you sure you downloaded the ISO with non+free included?
For the longest time Debian kept separate ISOs for the non+free drivers, boot stuff, etc. and the user had to search the site for them. Recently with the latest release of Debian Bookworm the Debian maintainers stopped separating them and put the non+free stuff in the main ISOs. If it was more than a few months ago that you tried installing that could be the reason you had problems. I’m not saying that it is, but it could be.
I’ve only had bad experiences with debian. First off the installer is broken, second apt is a fucking mess compared to the best package manager, emerge, and third I’ve had bootloader issues(or lack of bootloader issues) when trying to install.
Are you sure you downloaded the ISO with non+free included?
For the longest time Debian kept separate ISOs for the non+free drivers, boot stuff, etc. and the user had to search the site for them. Recently with the latest release of Debian Bookworm the Debian maintainers stopped separating them and put the non+free stuff in the main ISOs. If it was more than a few months ago that you tried installing that could be the reason you had problems. I’m not saying that it is, but it could be.