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> 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 insta
by bigyabai 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo agoYou 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 8mo agoYeah. 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 8mo 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.