I really don't understand what's so hard to do in debian installation? If you spend one sunny afternoon read a little bit about the process you will get a nice personalized, without "crap" Linux distro running. Of course nobody uses 'deselect' in install process... after all we've got 'apt' and 'dpkg'. After familiarized with this you will think different, and will be hard to change distro...
I really don't understand what's so hard to do in debian installation? If you spend one sunny afternoon read a little bit about the process you will get a nice personalized, without "crap" Linux distro running. Of course nobody uses 'deselect' in install process... after all we've got 'apt' and 'dpkg'. After familiarized with this you will think different, and will be hard to change distro ...