I tried switching to linux like 10 years ago, but then, all the games i played didn’t work. I tried switching again a month ago, but my cpu (i honestly don’t remember) wasn’t compatible. I watched youtube videos for a workaround, and that was way above my paygrade, because i’m worried i’m gonna skullfuck my computer by changing random ini files because a youtuber said so. I tried it on the laptop and i kinda just didn’t work either for a diffrent reason. I don’t care as much about my laptop, so i’ll try again.
As much as i hate windows, and i really really do, you hit a button and it’s installed.
You sound like the exact person this meme is about… Having installed both windows and Linux each several times in the last 5 years, the process has been significantly easier for Linux every time.
I didn’t downvote you originally, despite this obvious lie at the end “you hit a button and it’s installed.” - just pointing out that you are exactly who the meme is about, lol.
Vague complaints about compatibility issues that don’t hold much water (and unable or unwilling to share any details); vaguely complicated solutions, presented as if they are dangerous, from “untrustworthy” sources; and finally claiming windows doesn’t have any of that (bet you have no similar concerns about using regedit… and you only follow the advice of official Microsoft Tech Support, right?).
I had no time to even turn on the computer since the post. I assumed i still had the youtube videos saved that were the “fix” to my problem. I really want nothing more to get away from windows. When i tried to swith the first time, i literally had to plug in a usb stick and i was running linux. But that was 4 computers ago. It’s not that the sources might be dangerous. Usually when i have computer problems i use youtube, because i can see it, hear it, and replicate it. Usually 2000 videos show up and they all explain the same thing. In this case i found like 4 videos and most of them were pretty old or in 480p or filmed with a mobile phone. Computers are just a hobby to me, all i know about computers, figured out myself. And i don’t really understand what the lie is with the windows installer. I used every windows simce 3.1 and i always hated the install process because it’s “scary”. But the last few times i put in a usb stick and waited and it was done.
it matters. different distros will have different versions of everything, and whatever compatibility problem you had with your CPU (or maybe GPU, since that’s more common and you seem to not remember much about it) might not exist in a different version of the kernel or something similar.
I tried switching to linux like 10 years ago, but then, all the games i played didn’t work. I tried switching again a month ago, but my cpu (i honestly don’t remember) wasn’t compatible. I watched youtube videos for a workaround, and that was way above my paygrade, because i’m worried i’m gonna skullfuck my computer by changing random ini files because a youtuber said so. I tried it on the laptop and i kinda just didn’t work either for a diffrent reason. I don’t care as much about my laptop, so i’ll try again. As much as i hate windows, and i really really do, you hit a button and it’s installed.
You sound like the exact person this meme is about… Having installed both windows and Linux each several times in the last 5 years, the process has been significantly easier for Linux every time.
If it’s gotten easier in the past week, i’m trying again. But i appreciate the downvotes for trying to swith but not being able to.
I didn’t downvote you originally, despite this obvious lie at the end “you hit a button and it’s installed.” - just pointing out that you are exactly who the meme is about, lol.
Vague complaints about compatibility issues that don’t hold much water (and unable or unwilling to share any details); vaguely complicated solutions, presented as if they are dangerous, from “untrustworthy” sources; and finally claiming windows doesn’t have any of that (bet you have no similar concerns about using regedit… and you only follow the advice of official Microsoft Tech Support, right?).
I had no time to even turn on the computer since the post. I assumed i still had the youtube videos saved that were the “fix” to my problem. I really want nothing more to get away from windows. When i tried to swith the first time, i literally had to plug in a usb stick and i was running linux. But that was 4 computers ago. It’s not that the sources might be dangerous. Usually when i have computer problems i use youtube, because i can see it, hear it, and replicate it. Usually 2000 videos show up and they all explain the same thing. In this case i found like 4 videos and most of them were pretty old or in 480p or filmed with a mobile phone. Computers are just a hobby to me, all i know about computers, figured out myself. And i don’t really understand what the lie is with the windows installer. I used every windows simce 3.1 and i always hated the install process because it’s “scary”. But the last few times i put in a usb stick and waited and it was done.
Yeah definitely not the cpu, maybe the gpu if it was Nvidia and you weren’t on a distro that handles packing the Nvidia proprietary driver
I’m trying to find the error message i got, but i’m 99% sure it’s an intel problem. I mean i’m not sure at all, that’s what the internet told me.
what’s your CPU and GPU? it might help knowing that
what distro(s) did you try?
From what i gathered it doesn’t matter what distro is it, it’s just not compatible.
it matters. different distros will have different versions of everything, and whatever compatibility problem you had with your CPU (or maybe GPU, since that’s more common and you seem to not remember much about it) might not exist in a different version of the kernel or something similar.