21 points

Linux installs have gotten so quick and painless over the past decade or so. Usually just following a GUI, waiting like 5 minutes for the install, and suddenly you’re booted into a fresh desktop.

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On LTT there was a race and the person who chose to install Linux had a huge head start as the install only took a few minutes. While Linus took forever to install windows.

I forget the outcome of the video, but I wish he would show more support for Linux on his channel.

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Can’t actually buy MacOS, you have to buy their hardware. For the time being connecting with an Apple Account is still fully optional.

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i dont think apple forces a account on you like microsoft does and they say they are “piracy respecting” like if you only want a editing machine then you dont need a apple account


Edit: Tbh the tracking pixels concern me but your personal data is not sold which is good and i remember in ios telemetry was opt out

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I see four Linux logos and one of them looks suspiciously out of place

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Yeah, Arch isn’t exactly an easy install for beginners.

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I was thinking about Ubuntu pushing for snaps, but you’re probably right

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Is it really this easy? I want to side load linux onto my desktop so i can start transitioning over (especially because i have an ancient laser printer with linux drivers in the box, that windows 10 wont support!)

I basically only use foobar, firefox, and gimp as it is

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yeah it’s that easy, install Ubuntu, ignore anyone who says this is not good and you have to install something else, it’s bad yes but it’s bad in Linux standards still much better than windows

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I don’t know what’s the easiest way to do it because my installations are all kind of custom, but I’d say make some free space (50 GB probably to start with) from within Windows and then tell the Linux installer to use the free space in the disk and that’s basically it. If those are your programs you are ideal to be running Linux, though, you may want to try actual Linux music players.

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