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The same installer fail happened to me on one computer out of four.
I suspected the ISO I used was corrupt, so I re-downloaded and it was exactly the same.
I used a different media disk; a USB 3.0 drive instead of the original media, and it installed fine.
Everything else, the "he pieces are all in the same room, but they don't fit together, they aren't following a shared vision" or whatever, seems arbitrary. The author cites openSUSE as a polished example of a distribution for Debian to emulate, as if we haven't all struggled with Packman repos not being in sync with the rest of the system and having to wait a day without any multimedia apps working because we did a 'zypper dup' at the wrong time, or needing the root password for end-users to update their own Flatpaks or install a printer. openSUSE's vision is one guy who thinks the word Aeon is cool and pronounceable, who sees Gnome as the future of the platform and just punted on KDE.
So I don't know what the author wants when they discuss shared vision. The first thing you do when you install Ubuntu and Pop!_OS and Mint is change the layout and wallpaper. So what is a shared vision for Debian? The same color everywhere?