When was the last time you heard of a non computer literate person installing windows?
LINUX is still HARD to install?
Submitted 2 years ago by the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml
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krolden@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 years ago
That's a good point
MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
The comments here are amusing. All the people who disagree with you effectively believe that anyone who has a hard time with Linux is simply unwilling to learn and that it has nothing to do with Linux.
Linux fanboys defend the operating system from critics like a mother insisting their son is an angel who would never, ever do anything bad. "Not my Linny!"
beta_tester@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Spoiler: No it's not
And proper english grammer would be: "is linux still hard to install?"
eyeballkid@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I'm pretty happy with the linux installation process these days. Unless you're a distro-hopper it isn't something that you have to deal with on a regular basis. Even before developers put in a lot of hours to make the process easier, it was something that I only had to get right once per device.
erpicht@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
As a former computer illiterate, I certainly was stressed throughout the process of making a bootable USB drive and installing Linux Mint for the first time. Selecting whether to include multi-media codecs or not also tripped me up a bit, as I didn't know what that meant at the time. There are good points raised here, and some deserved praise for the streamlined installers.
As pointed out, it seems easy and straightforward after one has done it a few times. Now, the only thing that gives me grief is configuring GRUB to recognize GhostBSD, and that's mostly because I have yet to RTFM.
cyber_abiku@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Depends on the distro you choose to install and your knowledge of computers.
AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I can bang out a Linux install in ten minutes on a VM, with the mainstream distros. Windows installation is and has always been supremely annoying to do.
krolden@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
thekookaburraisalive@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
To the point of "Our installers are just better", I would put a "depend of what installer you are talking about and your desired setup".
I was going to try Manjaro and install it on my gaming PC (which was using NixOS previously). The problem is that on Calamares, I was not able to find a way to mount my other encrypted drives besides root. This was disappointing, because I know I could do that on the Fedora installation (which uses Anaconda), for example.
But coming back to the topic, the fear of installing a distro comes to the fact of not knowing what you are doing and screwing up your data. This is why you need to be focused on what you are doing at that moment. And also, some guided help would be great (I used to do that with friends at the Uni). But the rest is simple and easy to do, unless you need to perform everything almost manually, which is another story.
sagar@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I've installed more than 15 different OSes more than 100 times. The OS which I typically recommend, Trisquel KDE, is incredibly easy to install. It's somewhat difficult to use however. If you want something extremely simple even for use, go for Kubuntu.
xarvos@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Installing an OS is hard. That's why most people don't do that when it's not their work.
krolden@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Its really not. Most people dont do it because they dont care.
MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
It's not hard for tech savvy people. It is for people who aren't tech savvy.
I hear the argument you're making all the time and it's like a multilingual person telling a uniligual adult that learning a new language isn't that hard, and that unilingual people just don't care enough to learn.
It's clearly a way for tech savvy people to inflate their ego and look down on most users, and I say this as a fairly tech savvy person. I'm in good shape but for me to say overweight people just don't care enough to get healthy is a gross oversimplification. This is no different.
Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 years ago
How do you think someone who's been struggling to install Linux (or any other OS) might feel coming across a comment like this? What about someone who hasn't had access to computers until very recently?