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Every. Single. Time. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Have you tried to install arch or smth? Because otherwise i can't explain why you find it hard, as the other comment before me says, it's pretty easy

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If you're installing Fedora, then I would say it is far easier than installing Windows. I think Linux Mint and Ubuntu are roughly the same difficulty to install as Windows. Arch, Gentoo and a bunch of other distros expect you to know a bunch more and be ready to learn, those are definitely going to be hard for a first timer.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Bro the last 3 times I've installed windows, I clicked one button, made a cocktail, and occasionally returned to click a button and by the time I finished my second drink it was done.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    That is also exactly how you install Fedora. They've stripped away so many options and turned it into a nextnextnextdone thing. I'm not here to advocate that people should swap to Linux. I am just frustrated when the myth that linux is hard to install keep getting thrown around. I often get the impression that people talk about linux with 10+ year out of date information.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    You need to sign in to your Microsoft account - and if you don't want to do that there's a convoluted workaround. You need to untick all the tracking they enable by default. Opt-out of copilot and some other shit. It hasn't been one button and walk away in a long time.

    I've installed quite a few linux distros and windows versions for my job, and windows 10+ has one of the worst user experiences. Of course this doesn't include arch or any other "build it yourself" distro.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    I've edited my comment to explain.

    But to answer your question. No.

    Honestly it's just a comment about 1 video I watched years ago. I didn't expect this much of a response. I'm planning in pitting Linux onto my old laptop as a test soon so hopefully it will go well.

    Is arch an easy distro to use? I'm looking for something super simple to use. Also, is smth an acronym?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Is arch an easy distro to use?

    Nope, it's not very user-friendly but a great distro otherwise (and that's why there are so many others based on arch which aim to be more user-friendly)

    Edit: i suggest Linux Mint or Cachy, if you don't like them i suggest to also try this quiz: https://beta.distrochooser.de/en

    It's ofc not perfect but it suggested me some distroes that i actually do like so maybe it can work? Some people also told me that they were suggested distroes they like so it could work i guess

    is smth an acronym?

    It's a shorthand for "something"

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Worth noting that there really is not much point in using cachy over vanilla arch unless you have a zen 4+ cpu.

    Although I often feel like I am in the minority for preferring arch over cachy.

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