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  • That would lower the barrier to entry significantly. It doesn’t address the issues with the bios but someone mildly adventurous would have a much easier time going forward.

    I think something like that would have to be sponsored by and maintained by a big distro though. I’m afraid if it was a community effort the amount of bikeshedding would stop it before it even began.





  • xyguy@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.mlIt's time to move to Linux - YouTube
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    5 months ago

    God i wish. And most everyone here could install a new operating system in about 20 minutes. But nobody else is going to because the learning curve for a regular user to install an os is basically perpendicular. Even if they had a linux installer already on a flash drive.

    Oh just boot into the bios and find the option to boot for a flash drive and then boom installed.

    Which requires a user to know, What a bios is

    What booting means

    What boot options mean

    What the model of their flash drive is

    What button on their keyboard they need to press to get to the bios

    What secure boot is

    Where they need to go to turn off secure boot

    How and where to back up their important files

    What a disk partition is

    How to reverse the changes made to the bios so that it doesn’t boot to usb by default.

    And that’s assuming they know why they want a different OS, why they care and that they know about Linux in the first place.

    Most people dont and never will. All you can do is install Linux for the ones you like the most and say a prayer to your favorite deity for the rest.







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    8 months ago

    What do you mean? Its easy!

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  • I think a lot of people get caught up in wanting Linux to “win” be getting more market share or getting XYZ software ported to Linux but Linux is doing great. Unlike Microsoft aggressively pushing Windows and sacrificing their own users on the altar of market share, Linux can just be.

    More share would be great and greater software availability would be awesome but Linux doesn’t need to “beat” Windows or Mac to be useful or relevant or good. It already is. And I for one look forward to any new DE’s that anyone wants to make.

    It would be nice to get some kind of more usable CAD program on Linux though but it’s not up to Pop_OS to do that, it’s up to Autodesk or a team of extremely talented FOSS programmers or a Blender Foundation situation where the whole industry commits to a new open standard.