• Oniononon
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      146 days ago

      With linux: all you need is a bootable usb stick. With windows: all you need is a bootable usb stick and a free weekend.

      • @dutchkimble@lemy.lol
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        76 days ago

        To be honest, you need that weekend with Linux too but it’s fun instead of dread, and you get to set it up in a whole new way

        • Oniononon
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          36 days ago

          I don’t know, i haven’t needed to debloat or spend hours finding correct drivers and configuring things so my tablet and dac work and still have to manually start the drivers and restart the dac since its driver crashed every hibernate on windows 11.

          On linux only setup i needed to do is security certs ro sftp into my uni ftp server and pop in some data into config folder.

        • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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          26 days ago

          And the fix is understandable. The number of times I’ve had to fuck with Windows and never quite understood what I did that made it work, because you couldn’t repeat it twice. Sometimes it was just the number of reboots you needed to do for it to uncross the turd caught sideways and suddenly work fine, until it didn’t…

        • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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          36 days ago

          You can make a bootable windows USB in like 15 minutes using the media creation tool.

          Way better than the old days of copying ISOs and muckong about with creating partitions on a thumb drive.

      • @MTK@lemmy.world
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        76 days ago

        Tip: if you used a hammer, you are installing an OS incorrectly, but if you didn’t threaten the computer with a hammer you also did something wrong.

        All computers are driven by fear, that is why I always kick them when they make too much noise.

      • Bricked a laptop by trying to flash Coreboot onto it and forgetting to put my original BIOS in the build…

        I had a spare parts laptop and reused the motherboard but still, big oopsies on my part.