Love the image of wheeds just popping up all over your garden where you don't want them.It's a great metaphor for the "HEY, TRY THIS NEW THING!" shit microsoft pulls.
Additionally much software (and hardware even more) primarely targets windows as a platform.
The way printers mostly "just work"™ on Linux still amazes me, because printer vendors have all the incentives to make their stuff work for the most used platform, which sadly isn't Linux right now.
Thanks for the answer. My searches on the internet just brought up mathematical graph theory.
It's so cool to see what simple yet clever tricks they used to use. The tricks used today are probably still very clever but definitely no longer simple.
Absolutely not an expert or anything, but is it possible that the partition of your harddrive that you're trying to install Debian on (hd0) is too small?
lol I absolutely love it