TBH if the person has a laptop I don’t blame them. Those can be an absolute hell to wrangle into giving you access to the boot menu. Some won’t even let you select the boot device and require that you edit the boot order from BIOS instead! You also might have to disable secure boot if your distro of choice doesn’t support it - and I bet even with Windows 11 requiring it 95% of people have no idea that it even exists as an option.
That’s actually a great feature. Not suggested near enough. Unfortunately, as easy as it is, it’s still well above the average user who just wants to open a browser and check their web page. I think average users need to be encouraged to just get help from a friend or a LUG, just like the late 90’s and early 2000’s for Windows.
Sadly,most people in the general public haven’t got a fucking clue how to boot into a USB drive, especially since most motherboard BIOS’ don’t default to do so
You don’t even have to install it to try it out, just boot from USB into live mode.
For a large number of people, this action itself is a huge challenge
Ok, I booted the usb, but I think it went under the kitchen cabinet so now I’m stuck.
TBH if the person has a laptop I don’t blame them. Those can be an absolute hell to wrangle into giving you access to the boot menu. Some won’t even let you select the boot device and require that you edit the boot order from BIOS instead! You also might have to disable secure boot if your distro of choice doesn’t support it - and I bet even with Windows 11 requiring it 95% of people have no idea that it even exists as an option.
Ok, I chucked thumb drive in the back of the car, now what? Is something supposed to be happening?
That’s actually a great feature. Not suggested near enough. Unfortunately, as easy as it is, it’s still well above the average user who just wants to open a browser and check their web page. I think average users need to be encouraged to just get help from a friend or a LUG, just like the late 90’s and early 2000’s for Windows.
“Wdym I can’t install linux from vscode extension store!”
I’m ded.
LUG
Now that is a term i haven’t heard in a long time.
Sadly,most people in the general public haven’t got a fucking clue how to boot into a USB drive, especially since most motherboard BIOS’ don’t default to do so