On Tuesday, 18-06-2024 at 09:44 Vitold S wrote: > Good news everyone, > > Sorry that the question may have already been clarified earlier, but I am > not a regular member of the user mailing list, so I ask it again. > > Every time I download the Debian image, I am faced with a moral disorder > and philosophically go on a historical journey into the past, so that I can > remember and dive deeply into memory during the times of using CDs. > > Today in my environment I can be faced with a CD only for scaring away > birds or as an intricate amulet on teenagers’ backpacks as a reference to > the era of their parents, but not for recording images. Let's say, is this > my particular progressive experience, or do people still find the discs to > be as functional as ever?
If by CD you mean CD/DVD/BD then, I still have use for them in the following ways... > > More and more I see that people usually use USB flash drives everyday and > some large companies (like Microsoft) today provide an image with a USB > stick. 1) I use DVD ISO images to create a bootable USB flash drive. Super easy to do. I do not know how to do this with BD images, so if you do, please let me know. # ls -hal /dev/sd* # cp CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-2009.iso /dev/sdf 2) While small, I do have a collection of movie CDs, SVCDs, DVDs and BDs that I can watch. Though to be realistic, I would prefer to have these as files on the computer. 3) I have a several older computers which have CD/DVD drives by which I can install from. However, once again, if find booting from a USB is usually much easier. 4) I also create Virtual Machines on a regular basis, and use DVD ISO images to do so. For this I prefer the ease of use of an ISO image. 5) There are some versions of Debian that I keep an entire DVD set of ISO images, so even when Mirrors are not available, or no longer supported, I can still build a complete system. > > Is there a chance to change in next versions i.e. Debain 13 or other > versions an assembly specifically for a USB flash drive as primary > download? Do you think the time has come? When do you think this moment > will happen? While I would prefer not to see CD/DVD/BDs become extinct, it seems to be inevitable that one day they will. Please do not hasten their demise. > > Again, forgive me if I don’t know some of the important details and > difficulties of booting modern PCs via UEFI or some other feature more > conveniently solved in the CD/DVD format. Then just tell me about it, I'll > read it. > > Thanks. >
