mvirts @ mvirts @lemmy.world

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And enforces the value of installing documentation and source packages 😅

It's even better if your only internet connection is that computer you broke.

Lol wrong again

Any electronic thing

.world has memes and doom scrolling, what else could you want? 🥲

Basically, just using gtk instead of Qt :P

I'm more of a baobab person myself 😋

I think it highly depends on what kind of hardware you are attempting to install Linux on. You can make it work on almost anything, but the graphical installers are best used with hardware that was widely used when the distribution was released.

Also the older and more obscure distros may not have installers that pass secure boot checks, which is very frustrating if you don't know what is happening.

Lol who is this guy, the chief of police?

Clearly that's transparent

Too small, can't phone

I suspect technically insurance companies own most of the boats, they just don't know it yet

I really enjoy running nixos because there is very little uncertainty of what's installed. I don't run any games so I can't speak to that, but the centralized configuration makes fixing problems relatively easy. The downside is a steep learning curve to writing your own derivations, the community is split between "flakes" and normal nix derivations, and sometimes you just have to accept that it doesn't work on nixos without putting in the work to write the derivations yourself. (Don't get me wrong, people have made derivations easy to build, but it's an unexpected side quest when you just want to try some new software)

Unless it happens to be Ms word, in which case we all lose

And then it starts running because you set up wine with binfmt_misc, only to crash a few seconds later

Keep it up, this is how you become one of those "experts" :P

Can you post some more info on how far you've gotten?

Whatever else it may be, macos most certainly Is Unix unfortunately

There's no way to know

The efi partition can generally be mounted anywhere, distros may expect it in a specific location.

The efi partition must be fat formatted.

I'm not sure if partition order matters, I think the main thing is setting the boot flag for the efi partition in the partition table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition