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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Mac users:

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Almost everyone using Linux installed it. Almost no one using Windows installed it.

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[–] shadowedcross 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Installing debloated windows is not difficult at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And how difficult is it to keep it debloated? MS seems to be hellbent on pushing their crap into everyone's face.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Unless you install Linux mint with multiple displays. Holy 1 sec flickering sideways displays Batman. I don’t remember what I did exactly to fix but probably single display until drivers are all installed.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As much as I wish this were true, this is in a bubble where Windows isn't already preinstalled on everything.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Installing windows takes stupidly long. You have to click through 60 pages and click "No, i don't want to share my data" just for them to collect it anyway

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I love Debian, but it's installer is shit.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

What an absurdly sycophantic graph.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (17 children)

I can agree that installing Arch is easier than installing a debloated Windows. But Gentoo? I spent 2 weeks trying to install it, but couldn't get past partitioning the drive.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I want to buy a Framework laptop soon. I have the option to choose which Linux distro is best for me and load that on.

Any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Transitioning from Windows to Linux Mint was effortless for me, everything worked out of the box and i haven't typed a line of code yet. All i've had to to do is install Diodon to get the clipboard history feature.

However all i've done with it is internet and office work, basic stuff. No gaming, no video editing, no 3D animation or any such. I think if you have a mature and complicated creative workflow it's totally possible that you'll struggle to move to Linux