It’s actually super easy now. If you can install Windows, you can install Linux (distro dependent obviously). You’ll have to learn to do power user things, but that’s true for Windows as well. Any issues are just a web search away. If you have to use the terminal, you’ll be given the commands to copy-paste.
I’ve never installed windows either. 🙂 I picked all the parts for my current computer, but I paid a guy to do the assembly because I wasn’t confident in my ability, so he did all that. My ex husband did it on the previous build, and everything prior was a pre-built.
You’re scaring yourself away from these experiences. If you managed to pick the parts out for a computer then you can assemble it. Picking them out and making sure they’re compatible is the hard part. Assembly is just putting them into slots that only they can fit into and plugging in some wires.
Installing an OS is also (usually) trivial. You download the software online and put it on a USB drive and follow the instructions. Dual booting takes a little more effort because you have to set up partitions, but it usually isn’t that bad. I’m 100% Linux though because when I dual booted starting from Windows it eventually destroyed things after a Windows update (because Windows sucks), so I just removed the Windows partition and redid everything with just Linux.
I understand the sentiment, but if it’s coming from a reputable source I’d disagree. I think it’s ideal to understand the commands, but most users occasionally need to do some things that they’ll never learn what the commands do but they need to use them. It’s like saying never to run an application you download from somewhere. Sure, ideally you don’t unless you’ve read through the source-code and double checked it’s the same thing, but no one’s doing that.
It’s actually super easy now. If you can install Windows, you can install Linux (distro dependent obviously). You’ll have to learn to do power user things, but that’s true for Windows as well. Any issues are just a web search away. If you have to use the terminal, you’ll be given the commands to copy-paste.
I’ve never installed windows either. 🙂 I picked all the parts for my current computer, but I paid a guy to do the assembly because I wasn’t confident in my ability, so he did all that. My ex husband did it on the previous build, and everything prior was a pre-built.
If you want to try it, you can use a VM like VirtualBox, unless you have an ancient potato PC.
You’re scaring yourself away from these experiences. If you managed to pick the parts out for a computer then you can assemble it. Picking them out and making sure they’re compatible is the hard part. Assembly is just putting them into slots that only they can fit into and plugging in some wires.
Installing an OS is also (usually) trivial. You download the software online and put it on a USB drive and follow the instructions. Dual booting takes a little more effort because you have to set up partitions, but it usually isn’t that bad. I’m 100% Linux though because when I dual booted starting from Windows it eventually destroyed things after a Windows update (because Windows sucks), so I just removed the Windows partition and redid everything with just Linux.
No. Terrible advice. NEVER COPY-PASTE COMMANDS YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND! That’s also true for Windows.
I understand the sentiment, but if it’s coming from a reputable source I’d disagree. I think it’s ideal to understand the commands, but most users occasionally need to do some things that they’ll never learn what the commands do but they need to use them. It’s like saying never to run an application you download from somewhere. Sure, ideally you don’t unless you’ve read through the source-code and double checked it’s the same thing, but no one’s doing that.