Stupid list leaves off the most popular linux install and puts that fringe one in.
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
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.
I’m genuinely curious as an Arch user. Does gentoo not come with fdisk?
Oh, it does: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks
Look at that manual, isn't it nice?
Ma-ma-manual?
I thought there were only automatics nowadays!
No wonder Linux is so hard
As a Gentoo user who has used Arch in the past, I have no clue what problems this commenter could have run into because paritioning the drives is exactly the same for both distributions... if they were able to figure it out for Arch, then they can do it for Gentoo
Or you know, gparted, arch bootable, Windows Drive Management, Ubuntu…
I mean out of all the things I’d THINK you’d have trouble in, partitioning and formatting is…. not one of them.
Fedora takes 0 brain power to install.
Fedora has hands down the worst installer I've ever seen. Some distros don't have one, yes, some don't have a GUI one, yes, some require additional configuration afterwards, yes, but Fedora's is just confusing as hell for no good reason.
It's also the only distro I had sound issues (i.e. no sound at all) with ever, and the only one where an installation has straight up failed to a point it created an unbootable system.
tldr: I wanted to try Fedora and capitulated on install. Still enough brainpower for EndeavourOS btw.
Where’s Arch if you don’t RTFM? (I mean we’ve got 2 windows install modes there… only fair)
Maybe, but Linux will fuck up that boot partition within a year and any non-techie will be screwed.
I don't even know what this graph is even supposed to mean. Bitch about Windows all you like but the installation process is typically very simple.
Almost everyone using Linux installed it. Almost no one using Windows installed it.
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.
Hint: :q!
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