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Easy Dual Boot Method to Give Family Offramp from Windows
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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I'm not switching their OSes around. I want to give them the option to try a different OS out if they find a reason to during their normal use.
Dual boot means they can keep booting into W11 forever if they want. The point about dual boot isn't to get in the way of that, but to give choice. That's all I want to accomplish because there's no guarantee that Windows will get better for the average user. imo, the trend is to make things worse.
They will care when the next Windows update bricks their laptop, and they wish they could do anything else to get their $1000+ device back. Or their OneDrive fucks up and they lose their data.
No they won’t you’re just projecting and should leave them alone
You’re clearly desperate to proselytize the greatness of Linux when you should instead just enjoy it yourself and if they want to switch they’ll ask you in the future
It's quite funny how you know what's best for my family. Kindly, fuck off with that.
If I was desperate, I'd go ahead and switch their PCs to Linux without consulting the top Lemmy instance about how to make the transition seamless and easy. Real 5Head move
This is assuming normies like my family even know that there are alternatives other than MacOS.
I want to get ahead of that curve, and show them options.
This comment is antithetical to my entire post.
Yeah because your conduct is likely to make them and others think poorly of Linux when it’s eagerly foisted upon them by a plucky nerd
So it’s important to tell people like you to relax and let your family voluntarily come to you asking for Linux instead of enthusiastically try to convert them
What about giving them options is "foisted upon" to you?
Normies hate choice.
The computer is just an annoying medium they have to interface with to get to email and Facebook. They don't want options, they want consistency. This is why apple is popular, it appeals to this strong desire.
This is why win10 ltsc is the better choice.
Normies hate choice until they're forced into it. Windows is doing that to more and more people every single day.
Don't see the harm to having the fall back ready.
But you're right about W10 IoT LTSC. I'll keep that in mind as an alternative
I strongly suggest you read this book regarding normal people.