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Define normal. I would argue at least 75% of the US population has zero interest in learning how to install a new OS, let alone actually do so themselves. I s

Define normal. I would argue at least 75% of the US population has zero interest in learning how to install a new OS, let alone actually do so themselves. I say this as a decades-long Linux user (who has tried to evangelize it many times).

bigyabai 7mo ago
> has zero interest in learning Well I can agree with that, but that's not the same thing as being incapable of doing it. Both of my parents could easily install Linux, it's infantilizing to argue that they can't fill out a user wizard and select a drive to wipe.
- bakugo 7mo ago
  > and select a drive to wipe You are vastly overestimating the percentage of the population that knows what a "drive" is. Not saying that's a good thing, but it's the reality.
  - bigyabai 7mo ago
    You don't have to know. The Calamares installer annotates your partitions and explains what will happen in natural language. If you can order a pizza online, you can install Linux.
    - vanviegen 7mo ago
      Yeah. If ordering a pizza also regularly involves entering BIOS setup to change boot device ordering, change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI and disable secure boot, depending on your distro.
      - vladvasiliu 7mo ago
        > change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI This is funny. I have an HP PC that has an option in the BIOS to "prepare for RAID" or some such. I wondered what that was, so I turned it on. I had Linux on it at the time, and nothing happened. I shrugged and just forgot about it. Fast forward a few months later, when I gave this PC to my dad. He installed Windows on it, then started thinking the PC was somehow borked: "the installer sees the drive, installs, reboots, then it fails to boot". I was shocked, that PC worked perfectly. Then I remembered about that setting, told him to untick the box in the BIOS, and he was off to the races.
sankalpnarula 7mo ago
I would argue its close to 99% of the population. Technical people like us usually live in a bubble.
- booi 7mo ago
  No we don't... right guys?!
  - rmunn 7mo ago
    https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
    - sankalpnarula 7mo ago
      lmaoo
999900000999 7mo ago
I can't drive stick. This doesn't mean if someone gave me a manual car I wouldn't try to learn. If your around a bunch of car people then it's much easier to over estimate how many people will want to drive stick.
com2kid 7mo ago
Gamers are one of the few demographics still buying new Windows PCs. There are now so many discord servers and subreddits filled with people discussing which Linux distro to use. Honestly for your average home consumer, there isn't much need for a Windows PC now days.

bigyabai 7mo ago

> has zero interest in learning Well I can agree with that, but that's not the same thing as being incapable of doing it. Both of my parents could easily install Linux, it's infantilizing to argue that they can't fill out a user wizard and select a drive to wipe.

bakugo 7mo ago
> and select a drive to wipe You are vastly overestimating the percentage of the population that knows what a "drive" is. Not saying that's a good thing, but it's the reality.
- bigyabai 7mo ago
  You don't have to know. The Calamares installer annotates your partitions and explains what will happen in natural language. If you can order a pizza online, you can install Linux.
  - vanviegen 7mo ago
    Yeah. If ordering a pizza also regularly involves entering BIOS setup to change boot device ordering, change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI and disable secure boot, depending on your distro.
    - vladvasiliu 7mo ago
      > change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI This is funny. I have an HP PC that has an option in the BIOS to "prepare for RAID" or some such. I wondered what that was, so I turned it on. I had Linux on it at the time, and nothing happened. I shrugged and just forgot about it. Fast forward a few months later, when I gave this PC to my dad. He installed Windows on it, then started thinking the PC was somehow borked: "the installer sees the drive, installs, reboots, then it fails to boot". I was shocked, that PC worked perfectly. Then I remembered about that setting, told him to untick the box in the BIOS, and he was off to the races.

sankalpnarula 7mo ago

I would argue its close to 99% of the population. Technical people like us usually live in a bubble.

booi 7mo ago
No we don't... right guys?!
- rmunn 7mo ago
  https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
  - sankalpnarula 7mo ago
    lmaoo

999900000999 7mo ago

I can't drive stick. This doesn't mean if someone gave me a manual car I wouldn't try to learn. If your around a bunch of car people then it's much easier to over estimate how many people will want to drive stick.

com2kid 7mo ago

Gamers are one of the few demographics still buying new Windows PCs. There are now so many discord servers and subreddits filled with people discussing which Linux distro to use. Honestly for your average home consumer, there isn't much need for a Windows PC now days.