• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    23 hours ago

    I think installing Linux exposes you to higher severity issues, like “now it won’t boot”. Once you get over that initial setup, it’s not much different than windows or apple.

    If more computers came with it pre installed, it would be even easier for folks.

    I think about half the time I’ve installed Linux it was fine. The other half were problems with esoteric solutions.

    Still glad I made the switch.

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      2 hours ago

      I think installing Linux exposes you to higher severity issues, like “now it won’t boot”. Once you get over that initial setup, it’s not much different than windows or apple.

      I think that’s also the case any time you are the OS installer and administrator for your own system. I haven’t purchased an off the shelf PC for myself since the '90s, and in the years since then I’ve had many more basic “this shit won’t boot” issues with Windows, though granted I used Windows much more during that time.

      And even if you ARE setting up your pen system from scratch, I would submit that the install process for Linux Mint is an order of magnitude simpler than Windows these days.