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2 daysThe last Windows I installed was version 10, it wasn’t hard. Neither is installing Linux, maybe it used to be, I’ve only been using Mint for the past two years, but I don’t remember it being hard to install.
- 2 days
I had a real time of installing Windows on a laptop because I had a peripheral that only works in Windows.
No trackpad drivers, no network drivers, no audio. Given Windows 11 now functionally requires internet during setup, I had to go get a USB drive, copy over the .inf files and have Windows find them before I could use the laptop that originally shipped with Windows.
Absolutely crazy. None of it was weird hardware either. Intel wireless, standard trackpad (not synaptics), realtek audio. No idea what the hell its problem was.
What do you mean “install it?” You install programs ONTO windows. Windows is already installed. It’s literally how you buy the computer. Have you ever even used a computer?
Dude, you reinstall windows every1.5-2 years as by that point it has fucked itself into oblivion.
Twice have I helped my friends install linux. Twice have they had bogus usb drives that didn’t store the distro properly. (One of them was a 2 cent 2tb drive, the other one was a pendrive he “found on the ground in the street”)
- Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
TBF Windows is pretty simple to install. Tracking and other bullshit aside.
- 3 days
It’s always funny when someone goes “It’s so hard to install”, like bro, you just press “next, next next, enter your name, finish”. Can’t get easier than that.
Ey, EY! Do you know how long it took me figure out what a “mount point” is? In that same time, i could have already gone through, like, 20% of the ads of the win-installer!
And Windows 10 Pro has more steps than Linux Mint. The argument has been moot for a while, but some folk need a little encouragement to unlearn what’s been parroted for decades.
- feannag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
Except for one big thing. Most consumers buy a computer, and windows is already installed. Nothing to install, just an account to set up.
- 2 days
Setting up that account? You wouldn’t believe it, more steps than installing linux.
/s (maybe? Usb mint is so intrusive)
It’s a huge step in the right direction when a seller offers Linux preinstalled. Maybe the EU regulators can go after Microsoft, citing “anticompetitive actions”, for ensuring every manufacturer include Windows OS. That’ll open the gate for forcing options for the consumer
- 3 days
Yeah, already installed vs. may require some tweaks to get all of your hardware working, is a big one, especially with laptops since there’s so much proprietary junk in many of them.
- 3 days
People who use the word “fanboy” care way more than the other side, it’s like android saying it to Apple users
Use your trash while the rest of us enjoy a stable product
- ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish3 days
Stable? Are you really talking about Windows where every update is a gamble (and increasingly so)?
- 3 days
I use macOS, but yes windows is more stable than desktop Linux overall
I use Linux every day but it’s not useable on the desktop and nobody who knows anything about computers thinks otherwise
- 3 days
If you want to take it as that, and are unwilling to take advice from people with actual experience
- AlphaOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Yeah 40 years working on computers and the last stable windows OS was XP.
I have actual experience and you are completely full of shit.
- 3 days
It’s probably the #1 reason I’m not a fan of trying to convince Microsoft users to come over to Linux… I’d rather we NOT have to dumb down what is essentially an almost perfect OS for a bunch of fuckwits who can’t figure it out…
- 3 days
Been saying this for years. Any time the masses get involved with something good, it goes to absolute shit. Not everything has to be for everyone.
- 3 days
Well my friend, we’re in the minority it seems. Everyone else suffers from choice supported bias. (The need to convince others to make the same choice they did to validate their choice in their mind.)
