I always install openSUSE without removing my buttplug. Or any extra USB cables.
I dare you to use it for bios updates. Better don't clensh your butt or you'll brick your board
Two bricks would be made in that case. >!In that PC case.!<
Oh yeah I have that too. Just sit on the PC case while you are installing. ( ￣▽￣)
Solution: install windows for them, but complain and evangelize at every opportunity. You'll be so insufferable they'll never ask you again.
I do that every time I have to use windows. But I think my boss does not like that...
Another solution - install Windows 2000, which was the first and the last good Windows distro.
Another solution: install a Linux distro in kiosk mode and make the browser home page https://www.windows93.net/
Windows? Not heard of that distro before, sorry.
They must've meant Lindows, very common mistake.
Lindows is deprecated. Must've meant Wubuntu.
i installed linux mint on my sisters household PC last week.
my dad did his usual grumblings about "it should be windows" and i just said "i've been out of the windows ecosystem completely for the last 5 years and partially for another 3 years beyond that. i no longer provide support for windows, if you want them to have windows you need to support it"
he went quiet after that.
Why does your dad have an opinion on what your sister use?
he's still coming round to the fact he's not getting security updates soon due to lack of a TPM module.
He'll be running mint too by the end of the year
Right? OS arguments over Thanksgiving dinner sounds like kind of a good time.
Well, beats other kinds of argument.
Me with 40$ 1tb external ssd with ventoy be like
Your father gave me his USB stick in Vietnam, son.
where did you keep it?
I carried this uncomfortable hunk of data up my ass for two years. And now little man, I give it to you.
Dude: "Damn... I really want to be able to see the inside of my computer. Why won't anyone help me install windows to the case?"
Meanwhile me with a CD book that has 17 bootable DVDs and CDs plus a separate DVD+RW for more random, less permanent crap and a portable USB DVD drive (the drive is sourced from e-waste and fails to write both DVD+/-RW and CD-RW at 4x, only 2.4x and 10x respectively work).
I like spinny media.
I mean, I also have a Ventoy disk, but I haven't used it for a looooong time because it's no fun, but discs are.
I just need a bigger backpack. The WRT54GL is taking up quite some space too.
Much cooler than ventoy, no?
You have all that up your ass!? ( ; ﾟДﾟ)
I mean, they have a hole in the middle, so if I stack them they let stuff pass.
I- I didn't think of that...
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.
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!
PopOS is great, the installation process is like 5minutes, with 4 minutes being the download and boot from USB. From there on you click "next" 5 times and are rebooting into a working system.
To be absolutely honest, I had to do some googling and command line stuff to get my fingerprint reader in the laptop working but that was the only thing that needed any attention. But I never did a Windows install where I didnt have to configure at least 2-3 drivers, so I consider it a draw.
From there one it is the typical stuff: You need one proprietary software? You have to figure it out for hours how to get it to work. You are fine with open source options? Go enjoy a blazing fast ad-free non intrusive non annoying OS. For me the trade of is worth it. Been using Linux since I was 14, if I could do it from my kids room with parents switching of WLAN after 22:00 you can do it too.
Best I can do is 60 year old dad on Mint XFCE on a massive Phenom II x4 955. Salvaged from my first PC build.
Hey of it works for your pop and you keep stuff out of a landfill I say that's a solid win.
Installing Linux on your buttplug is a bold move, I say.
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