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> I wonder how many of them would be using it if it required a weird workaround or really anything more than "put the disc in and reboot". Well, "put the disc
by w1ntermute 14y ago
> I wonder how many of them would be using it if it required a weird workaround or really anything more than "put the disc in and reboot".
Well, "put the disc in and reboot" doesn't work right now on most PCs, does it? You have to go into the BIOS and change the boot order, or pull up the boot menu to make a custom selection.
- manaskarekar 14y agoEven easier: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-ubuntu-with-windows http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-ubuntu-with-wind...
- glesica 14y agoIt worked on the Thinkpad I bought a few weeks ago... I think most machines are configured to boot from the optical drive first. Even if there is a boot menu, that is still much less scary than having to hunt through a series of menus to find and change an obscure setting. As we in this community are probably all aware, even small obstacles like having to enter a name or type a credit card number can drastically reduce conversion rates on the web. I think this is a reasonable analogue. Even objectively small obstacles can be important.
- taejo 14y agoYou said > Even if there is a boot menu, that is still much less scary than having to hunt through a series of menus to find and change an obscure setting. My mom heard > Even if there is a scary series of menus to find and change an obscure setting, that is still much less scary than having to hunt through a series of menus to find and change an obscure setting.