The issue here is if you can’t be unassed to learn how to install Linux what are you going to do when you have problems. There’s a web installer for GrapheneOS it could probably be used as an entry point for someone to create the same for a.distro.
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think this really highlights a gap in Linux adoption. This makes me wonder how many people would install Linux if they could just click one button in their web browser to guide them through the process of replacing Windows.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, the point is that we should ensure that people can use Linux without needing deep technical support.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who’s we, you got a mouse in your pocket?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sometimes. But I felt that I could talk for more than just myself.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You want people to use it? Make it easy. Not everyone wants to know how all their tools work and fix them on their own. Even you don’t.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why precisely should I care if Bob from Baltimore or Tim from Tulsa use Linux?
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
There used to be a thing called Wubi. Allowed you to install Ubuntu basically like a program/app. It’s how I first got into it. I’d tried a little before, but Wubi allowed me to turn my little netbook it’s a Linux machine because it didn’t have a CD drive. It was great. I’ve never really understood why that couldn’t be done again. Lowered to bar to entry a great deal.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There were installers that did this in the past, it was generally not worth it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(software)
Changing OS is not as trivial as installing an app, if people can’t follow the process of burning it to a USB pen and rebooting, they’re not going to be able to adjust.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Ubuntu used to offer a tool that was only a bit more involves than that
adarza@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked.
endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work–with some caveats: it’s slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that’s in development will change pretty much everything ‘under the hood’ that makes endless what it is, as they’re moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself.
TheViking@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
Which distro is that ??
adarza@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation.
https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system
my ‘monitor’ (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that’s the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows ‘installer’.
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do we know why they stopped?
palordrolap@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I'm going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s fair.
adarza@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.