I've never been able to reliably use debian without a /lot/ of frustrating configuration. I'm not a bored high school student anymore.
Back when I used sarge, it was okay - there was some configuration I had to do to get X working, and at one point I had a pretty sweet custom kernel build on a laptop that extended its battery life 35% over windows.
Decided to spin up a VM to use debian as a dev environment again recently, and -- well -- after three hours of futzing with it I deleted the VM and booted Ubuntu instead. Had issues getting virtualbox extensions working; some others that I can't remember.
Back when I used sarge, it was okay - there was some configuration I had to do to get X working, and at one point I had a pretty sweet custom kernel build on a laptop that extended its battery life 35% over windows.
Decided to spin up a VM to use debian as a dev environment again recently, and -- well -- after three hours of futzing with it I deleted the VM and booted Ubuntu instead. Had issues getting virtualbox extensions working; some others that I can't remember.