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An end user variant of this might be counting total key strokes/mouse clicks to install Linux on any machine, including all the disgusting BIOS/UEFI fiddling to
by l0b0 3y ago
An end user variant of this might be counting total key strokes/mouse clicks to install Linux on any machine, including all the disgusting BIOS/UEFI fiddling to enable USB boot, disabling SecureBoot, and anything else necessary. Whoever wins has found the best end user hardware/distro combo.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoDo the machines that ship with GNU/Linux preinstalled win by default? (Zero keys/clicks on system76, say) I suppose to be a fun game we'd have to exclude them.
- l0b0 3y agoWe'd have to exclude them, otherwise it just raises the question of how the machine was installed originally. And if that was done using some complicated automated setup, the cost and complexity of the setup draws the result down. Assume the storage has some unknown content.
- MightyBuzzard 3y agoGentoo users win then. They don't need to boot from USB, because their installer is tar. The ones that use a BINHOST don't even have to fiddle with compiling anything but the kernel unless they demand non-standard USE flags
- Gordonjcp 3y agoIt'd be interesting to compare that with installing Windows, which in 30 years of using Linux I have still to successfully do.