Dabbling in Debian

Well after using Ubuntu Linux for a while now, I decided to venture into the world of Debian.  Not much of a venture, right?  Well I’m not so sure.  The first thing I noticed was that in VirtualBox the mouse cursor didn’t quite reach into some parts of the screen, such as the menu bar.  I also spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to add a user to the sudoers file, since the only user I initially set Debian up to work with was not in the list.  ???  All the instructions I found said to start a Terminal as root.  Kind of hard when you don’t have root access.

Which leads me to more thoughts about the high amount of security in Linux.  Can be a good thing, but if it’s a single-user machine, mostly it’s just a nuisance and keeps you away from your own files and makes it harder to administer your own computer.  I’m sure Linux veterans would disagree with my cynicism.