• cum@lemmy.cafe
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    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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    With archinstall script you can install Arch in less than 1 minutes (not counting copying system files)

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    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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      Who installs an unmodified installer package? That’s just silly. Setup your installer using Rufus or something similar and this is not an issue.

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    Is there any guide to install this Debloated Windows? 🤔

    So far what I used is to use debloater script and also to disable that windows update service related stuff. Just wondering whether there is more unhinged part in it.

    Also no custom rom android image? because technically it use older and customized linux kernel.

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    Having installed both recently, Manjaro is slightly easier than Fedora (KDE spin), never tried to install Mint so I don’t know if it’s above or below that

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    The windows one seems exaggerated until you try to set it up with a regular local account.

    Setting up a scratch install VM is such a pain.

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      Yeah, setup win 10 install on qemu may need to jump some hoop, especually when you want to enable features like gpu pass through.

      Although qemu may not be as easy as virtualbox/vmware, the performance is worth it.

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    i seriously do not understand what’s up with some of you, why do you spell stuff like in “m$”. The extra work to type it like this doesn’t matter at all. It makes no difference, Microsoft will not shut down because you spelled their name as “micro$oft” on your lemmy post or something like that. why do you keep doing this, i don’t understand.

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      If I were to take a guess, it’s probably just a censorship joke. Censoring the word implies that it is inappropriate to say. Like when people say Fr*ench".

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      It’s literally one more keystrokes, and people who do it often in a phone probably have it autocomplete. This message took much longer to write than probably every single time the OP has written MS as M$.

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        At the top because you risk going to jail for violating the Apple terms of service/end user license agreement.

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          lol. They only ever pursed anyone for selling Mac clones or hardware for doing it. And the hardware was just a preconfigured usb drive with a motherboard connector on it. I think there were actual Apple devs moonlighting as hackintosh contributors.

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      Well Mac users do too… Well they don’t… but someone does.

      I was that someone for some family members. I felt icky the whole time.

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        I once upgraded a girl’s parents’ computer to System 8 and didn’t realize it wasn’t supported. Fucked up the BIOS (or whatever Macs used back then) and they had to ship it back to Apple to get fixed. I did not hear from her again.

        But I haven’t actually installed Mac OS since about Puma. New operating systems just come down in the normal software update. But I still cherish my OS X Beta DVD.

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          A couple months ago my sister bricked her mac somehow… it wouldn’t boot past the stupid white screen with a ? on it.

          Had to edit random shit on the built in installer to get it to talk to apple correctly and pull the correct OS image to fix itself. It was a full OS install/recovery.

          Easy enough because I understand linux/unix and underneath that’s all it is… but mac users are just stupidly lost… And to get to some of those tools, because they’re so buried underneath the “MAC experience”… it’s a pain in the ass too.

          I can’t be bothered to remember what version it was… I hate touching maps. I only did that one cause it was my sister.

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            Easy enough because I understand linux/unix and underneath that’s all it is… but mac users are just stupidly lost… And to get to some of those tools, because they’re so buried underneath the “MAC experience”… it’s a pain in the ass too.

            As a Mac user since System 1.0 with over 20 years of experience using Linux for Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies: Most people are stupidly lost, regardless of the OS they’re using.

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            Question mark standardly means it can’t find the drive. Used to be hold down the alt key to select boot drive. If nothing comes up still plug into Ethernet in some manner, then boot again with alt, should pull an online os installer that will bring you to the disk utility and such. Can troubleshoot the drive from there and figure out if it needs repairing / formatting / replacing

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    Isn’t mint a downstream product of Ubuntu? I haven’t paid attention to them since they were distributing images from a compromised WordPress site years ago 😂

    Maybe I’ve been DDing Ubuntu for so long that I just couldn’t be bothered to try another distro based on it. I want to try a rolling release distro, but I’m too old to distro hop. All I care about is a functional system anymore.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    I set up a kiosk on a Linux Mint machine today. From blank, unformatted drive to fully deployed kiosk, it took less time than just installing a base install of win11.

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    Windows 10 is easy to install… If everything goes well. And 2 out of 3 times in my experience, it doesn’t.