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I've switched out HDDs and installed Linux a few times and it's never taken me 5 minutes. Not even 50 minutes. Sure, it's a one-time "cost" and nearly insignif
by chadgeidel 10y ago
I've switched out HDDs and installed Linux a few times and it's never taken me 5 minutes. Not even 50 minutes.
Sure, it's a one-time "cost" and nearly insignificant over the course of the lifetime of the machine, but please be honest about the time spent.
- nickjj 10y agoIt's 5 minutes to unscrew a couple of screws, slide out the SSD card, put in the new SSD card and screw it back together. The GalliumOS installer is also really straight forward. You pretty much run 2 commands and hit ok a few times. This part is more than 5 minutes, but it's mainly just twiddling your thumbs waiting for things to download and install. Then you boot up and you're in.
- Ezhik 10y agoFrom experience, it's just annoying to have to do things like that. It really is nice to have a machine that I can just use out of the box without tweaks and such, not worrying about updates breaking my drivers, things like that. However at this point it's not worth paying Apple for that pleasure, when I can get a Windows machine from Microsoft that gives me all that. Hell, I can even get that Developer Edition Dell XPS with Linux.
- chadgeidel 10y agoThanks for the update. That sounds pretty awesome actually.