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Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521


Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience "hasn't been great" is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Most people use an OS to do things, not to do an OS.

It's like with cars: There are some car nerds who tune their own engine control parameters and replace broken transmissions and engines themselves.

But for most people a car is used to get to work (or other places) not to play with them.

And while there's nothing wrong with using an OS as a hobby because you love debugging things, it would be strange to expect that everyone wants to play with an OS instead of using an OS to accomplish something.