As always, I got the username wrong…

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  • Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.

    Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.

    It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.

    With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.

    For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.

















  • Coz you booted in BIOS mode, arch iso has a different boot menu for EFI and BIOS mode.

    I strongly advise that your PC supports BIOS/Legacy mode, use that instead of stupid overcomplicated, buggy UEFI crap.

    I guess UEFI is useful if you want to use secure boot or PCI pass through, otherwise there’s no reason to make your life painful by using UEFI, just install grub to the MBR and it just works, no need for complicated UEFI dirs, and add the UEFI vars to the device firmware that get automatically deleted every time you swap hard drives and then the system stops booting, and ofc installing to the removable path doesn’t work either…

    My god, I hate UEFI with passion.