2026-10-06 03:55 UTC
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@Ephera@lemmy.ml 2026-10-06 06:49
Yeah, not a bad stance to have. When I switched to Linux (in the middle of a compsci minor), I thought I was the king of the world and that I knew everything about computers. Then Linux showed me that I know fuckall, not because it was particularly hard, but rather because it’s an open library. You can look at a random config file on your PC and it will explain you highly technical concepts for free. You can look at the source code of anything you’re interested in. Well, or probably rather read an explainer from someone who read/wrote the source code. And you can easily look at the logs of your applications to debug them. Every so often, I run into folks that genuinely seem to know a lot about Windows, and I always wonder how. It doesn’t explain anything to you. 😅
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@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2026-10-06 15:47
In that case, I would advise you read the unetbootin wiki about “hard disk install modes” and see how much of it you feel comfortable with. It is a bit of hoop jumping but if you are comfortable with partition editors it seems to be the most straight forward method to me. Someone mentioned netboot.xyz, but reading their docs I couldn’t (quickly) find a way to set it up from windows without having some sort of boot media, and it would require another entire device on the network to boot from, which seems way more expensive than a USB drive.