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    Windows VS Linux (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by trespasser69@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 27 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    would love to see some actual market research on this. sit down a sample of users, have them install then use some OSs. interview them on their experience. rather than yknow making up data

    [–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 hour ago

    Even better if made with multiple ussr groups, including tech-savy and people who never installed an os before, as well as people already used to windows and linux.

    [–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    i was on a instance called kbin.cafe after fedia.io moved to mbin, for no reason. did it turn into a lemmy instance without redirect?

    [–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    no i don’t think so, probably just a coincidence. i have never used kbin or mbin

    [–] b34k@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Where’s Arch if you don’t RTFM? (I mean we’ve got 2 windows install modes there… only fair)

    [–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

    I'd say that is above windows. R-ing the FM is quite essential to arch or gentoo.

    [–] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 34 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    This sub is delusional

    [–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 hours ago

    Like every linux community. Living in a bubble that doesn't exist.

    [–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

    debian should be a bit higher on that list, but it's still easier than installing windows.

    [–] humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Why?

    [–] Katana314@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (13 children)

    Installing any operating system is often a hassle. This comes in part from my own experience trying to understand the unguided partition recommendations of a Bazzite (basically Fedora on low level) install. I got through it, but it was certainly no easier than Windows.

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    [–] bwv1004@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

    So by linux, you mean not every open OS? Can we add freebsd? Not the easiest but lots of users willing to help on a forum post.

    [–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Installing regular Windows 10/11 is definitely more than twice as painful than installing Debian 12.

    Once, I was trying to install Windows 10 and wasted an entire day! The installation would systematically fail at the beginning of the installation with a BS error message that doesn't give any hint about what's going wrong. In the end it just didn't like USB3 as an installation media! I reflashed it to a USB2 and it worked, but OMG was it super slow ! It took literally hours to install !!!

    Debian, even as a noobie, you'll go from flashing your ISO to a booted system within an hour. If you've done it once before, you will get it done in 20 minutes.

    [–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    It works over USB 3.0, it sounds like you just have a broken or corrupt drive.

    [–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    It normal does work with USB3, yes. And no, this pendrive works perfectly fine and I've used it to install many other OSes since.

    Edit: and I might add that I finally found the solution online so I was definitely not the only one confronted to this problem

    [–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    What the hell. I've never seen such an issue. Microsoft is so considerate; they provide us with cool little surprises like that from time to time. ♥️

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