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    [–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    brother, 99% of users will never even consider installing their own os. the issue isn't that Linux is hard to install, the issue is that pretty much anyone brave enough to even mess with their operating system is either already on Linux, a boomer, or trapped by professional software that isn't available on Linux (that's me, a videographer)

    the only way Linux is breaking out of extreme obscurity is if it starts coming pre-installed on commercially available and desirable hardware. the steam deck did more for Linux in a single product launch than the entire decade of combined efforts before that. before the deck i would have said it was simply never going to happen, but who knows. maybe it'll be up to eccentric billionaires that never went public with their companies to push the Linux future we all want.

    [–] jaschen@lemm.ee 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Um... My grandma installed Windows 11 on her computer and then ran a simple script I gave her after. You guys are delusional.

    [–] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 3 hours ago

    oh damn that sucks, thats why you dont click suspicious links

    [–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

    Was it a script to install your own crypto miner?

    [–] Resonosity@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

    I want to buy a Framework laptop soon. I have the option to choose which Linux distro is best for me and load that on.

    Any suggestions?

    What are you intending to do with your laptop?

    [–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

    Transitioning from Windows to Linux Mint was effortless for me, everything worked out of the box and i haven't typed a line of code yet. All i've had to to do is install Diodon to get the clipboard history feature.

    However all i've done with it is internet and office work, basic stuff. No gaming, no video editing, no 3D animation or any such. I think if you have a mature and complicated creative workflow it's totally possible that you'll struggle to move to Linux

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    System76 has their own OS. You should start there and move on if you wanted to.

    [–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    PopOS! Is not as user friendly as it seems to linux veterans.

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

    Correct, horse battery staple! (Puns) I have had issues with it occasionally when I tried but it is a start.

    [–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

    I usually suggest linux mint with cinnamon desktop for casual users or Fedora with KDE Plasma for power users .

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

    This is 100% true, but the chart inverts when you have a problem you're trying to fix.

    [–] Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

    Mint was super easy. I just had to scratch my head for two days trying to figure out why the keyboard didn't work after coming out of suspend. Had something to do with it being in a USB 3.0 port. Once I plugged it into a 2.0-port it worked.

    [–] super_user_do@feddit.it 1 points 3 hours ago

    The debate has never been so intense! It might not be the Year of the Linux Desktop, but that's certainly a great one

    [–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 38 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

    would love to see some actual market research on this. sit down a sample of users, have them install then use some OSs. interview them on their experience. rather than yknow making up data

    [–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

    well people dont actually install OSs

    [–] And009@reddthat.com 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    the only thing cooler than a meme with fake data is a meme with real data

    [–] Homescool@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 points 5 hours ago
    [–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 8 hours ago

    Even better if made with multiple ussr groups, including tech-savy and people who never installed an os before, as well as people already used to windows and linux.

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    [–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    Unless you install Linux mint with multiple displays. Holy 1 sec flickering sideways displays Batman. I don’t remember what I did exactly to fix but probably single display until drivers are all installed.

    [–] padge@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Omg please tell me when you do, I'm running Mint on my laptop but want to migrate my desktop over soon which has multiple displays

    [–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure that was the fix. Start the installation with a normal single monitor. Once the OS is installed, run update manager to download and install updates. This would include GPU drivers. My second monitor is in portrait mode which I think was the culprit.

    [–] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 44 points 13 hours ago (25 children)
    [–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

    Why? I use Mac mostly, but recently built a PC. I installed two Linux distros on it without even worrying about what drivers I needed, and I even have an NVidia GPU.

    I also created a Windows partition and neither WiFi nor Bluetooth worked out of the box. Linux was objectively easier.

    [–] tsugu 7 points 12 hours ago

    Like every linux community. Living in a bubble that doesn't exist.

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    [–] b34k@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Where’s Arch if you don’t RTFM? (I mean we’ve got 2 windows install modes there… only fair)

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    [–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Installing regular Windows 10/11 is definitely more than twice as painful than installing Debian 12.

    Once, I was trying to install Windows 10 and wasted an entire day! The installation would systematically fail at the beginning of the installation with a BS error message that doesn't give any hint about what's going wrong. In the end it just didn't like USB3 as an installation media! I reflashed it to a USB2 and it worked, but OMG was it super slow ! It took literally hours to install !!!

    Debian, even as a noobie, you'll go from flashing your ISO to a booted system within an hour. If you've done it once before, you will get it done in 20 minutes.

    [–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    It works over USB 3.0, it sounds like you just have a broken or corrupt drive.

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    [–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 32 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    Install windows, run debloat powershell script. Done.

    Microsoft give no shortage of things to complain about with needing to exaggerate.

    [–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

    Or just run Tiny11.

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