Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

• yoshisaur@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  linux can be used through mostly GUI now so i partly agree with you, but installing linux can be quite a hard task for those who aren’t tech savvy. i’m pretty sure being able to do the following can be considered tech savvy:

  1. change boot settings
  2. flash an ISO to a USB drive
  3. shrink windows partition into a new one for linux
  4. boot from USB
  5. actually install linux
  6. get used to linux

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you not order Ubuntu on a DVD anymore? Also you’re explaining dual boot. You can just single boot linux

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    • yoshisaur@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i’m not sure. most people at my school use a laptop at their main computer, so they couldn’t use an ubuntu DVD anyways. i personally prefer dual boot over single boot

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      • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        … did everyone remove the media drive off laptops? There are also external media drives.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ultrahellabased.tar.gz

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Um is there anything special to use Linux? Click the GUI.

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  • emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well installing it. That alone requires a challenge most folks probably couldn’t overcome easily. People are accustomed to just getting a computer with a working os on it. Changing that os would be pretty hard for them.

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    • doctortran@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And let’s be real, you at least need a degree of tech savvy to deal with the inevitable issues that will come up. Even on the simplest distro.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        IDK, only times when I broke things on Debian were when I made the unwise decisions to do things I don’t fully understand (that doesn’t really happen now). And my elderly mom uses Mint with less problems than she did Windows.

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    • piccolo@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depending on the distro, its generally no harder than windows… infact it probably easier since you dont have to go male an MS account.

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      • emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean buying a usb, installing imaging software, not messing up the drive your try to create the installer on. That’s already a lot harder than most tech illiterate people that just need to buy a computer.

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a different paradigm for windows users. “Why won’t this exe/msi install on my computer?”

    But also, once you realize the unlimited potential to customize it’s pretty special. I, for one, hate using anything without a tiling windows manager.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So how do you install things?

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      • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Red hat based? Install the RPM. Debian based? Install the deb, generally? Install from the repository. You can also install from source if you’d like

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