• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    It is easier more than ever to install linux today.

    People like to use words like “easy” and “hard” to describe clicking buttons and typing letters into a display. These are the wrong words. The word is “complicated”.

    Doesn’t matter if it’s easier, the fact remains that it is complicated and likely always will be.

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      5 months ago

      The process to install Ubuntu vs Windows is pretty much the same.

      Create a user, choose a timezone, connect to Wi-Fi or LAN and wait for setup to finish. It is not complicated by any mean.

      As I mentioned, most people never install an OS in their life, so they don’t know how to create a boot drive and install an OS.

      So the issue isn’t that installing Linux is complicated, it’s that installing an OS on an empty drive is not a thing that the vast majority of pc users has done or will ever do.