TBH if the person has a laptop I don’t blame them. Those can be an absolute hell to wrangle into giving you access to the boot menu. Some won’t even let you select the boot device and require that you edit the boot order from BIOS instead! You also might have to disable secure boot if your distro of choice doesn’t support it - and I bet even with Windows 11 requiring it 95% of people have no idea that it even exists as an option.
I’d say I am good in Linux, having it used for 15 years or so, however I needed to research a little bit on how to boot up from USB on my new computer.
I ordered it without OS and it somehow still came with a non activated Win11 install and of course safe boot and Microsoft makes sure its really annoying to turn that off.
Totally see how this would scare off many people, so really cant blame them…
For a large number of people, this action itself is a huge challenge
TBH if the person has a laptop I don’t blame them. Those can be an absolute hell to wrangle into giving you access to the boot menu. Some won’t even let you select the boot device and require that you edit the boot order from BIOS instead! You also might have to disable secure boot if your distro of choice doesn’t support it - and I bet even with Windows 11 requiring it 95% of people have no idea that it even exists as an option.
I’d say I am good in Linux, having it used for 15 years or so, however I needed to research a little bit on how to boot up from USB on my new computer. I ordered it without OS and it somehow still came with a non activated Win11 install and of course safe boot and Microsoft makes sure its really annoying to turn that off.
Totally see how this would scare off many people, so really cant blame them…
Ok, I booted the usb, but I think it went under the kitchen cabinet so now I’m stuck.
Ok, I chucked thumb drive in the back of the car, now what? Is something supposed to be happening?