Got my parents a new computer for Christmas. I didn’t feel like acting as their 24/7 tech support so I let it with the Windows 11 that it came with. Yesterday they couldn’t get their webcam and microphone to work at all for our weekly family videocall. We ended up having the videocall on Signal. I believe they would face less troubles with Debian at this point.
Too bad my usb stick can only store one distro at a time.
Solution: install windows for them, but complain and evangelize at every opportunity. You’ll be so insufferable they’ll never ask you again.
Constable Odo treatment.
Thanks for reminding me that the DS9 box set is a high priority on my ripping list
Me with 40$ 1tb external ssd with ventoy be like
I can’t fit an SSD up my ass. :(
Not with that attitude
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Its one of the many trials set by SPACE KING
I tried that too, it wouldn’t reliably boot on things it should have. I remade it on a mechanical drive, same settings, and that one will boot on anything I’ve thrown it on so far.
I always install openSUSE without removing my buttplug. Or any extra USB cables.
Uhm… Where can I find that? For a friend, of course! (◕ᴗ◕✿)
Well, I only know of one and you’ll need 12 angry men to pull it out.
Oh yeah I have that too. Just sit on the PC case while you are installing. ( ￣▽￣)
My 77 year old mother-in-law runs Pop cause of me and loves it.
My parents love Bazzite.
Is Pop as good and generally user friendly for those less familiar with Linux? Never heard of Pop before!
Why Bazzite for a non-gaming setup? Or are your parents gamers?
My brother set it up for my parents even though they don’t game. I just think he installed it because it as intuitive as Windows for lay people.
Yeah it’s a very good overall distro. Things work well and it’s familiar enough to pick up and use.
Just install Linux Mint, they’ll never find out.
As a fresh convert not having my .exes work would be sus. But with MS locking more and more stuff in their app store, we’re not too far from a full-on windows troll distro.
It will obviously look different, but with binfmt, wine, and a sane initial setup, you could get a lot of .exe works from a click in the UI (or the CLI, after all, CLI apps exists on windows too).
Should mostly work through WINE and Proton?
Your father gave me his USB stick in Vietnam, son.
Installing Linux on your buttplug is a bold move, I say.
If you’re incapable of figuring out how to install Windows then you’re probably incapable of most things in life.
I am not incapable, I just don’t want to.
Most people would rather go to the store and get a new computer, than go to a webpage and download an iso. They can figure it out. They are just lazy and have little motivation to try it. They also want what they already know, with as little change as possible.
I think without instructions most people would need help due to not knowing what a partition is. So depending on your interpretation of incapable this seems like a huge exaggeration. The Linux installers with GUIs I’ve seen at least explained how to set them up.
Is it mandatory to have in your ass or can you just put it in your pocket?
It’s mandatory.
Prison pocket.
Hey if you don’t know how to do it just say so
I’m shy. ┐('～`;)┌
