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from the it's-2015-and-things-are-easy dept.
I remember a story on the other site years ago when, following the Mojave Experiment, some guys did their own Folgers Test, asking people what they thought of this new (unidentified) UI and most of those folks thought it (KDE) was just more of Redmond's stuff.
Now, there's this story from OpenSource.com.
- Linux is so easy, anyone can install it--even by accident
One day, [...] a user's Windows install went corrupt on her laptop and she accidentally installed Linux. When her laptop couldn't [load the OS] from the hard drive, it automatically booted [to] the network. When she got the PXE install menu, she just hit Enter, installing a Linux desktop with all of our default network security settings and applications.
She then logged into it with her network account and emailed me to say that her Windows had updated and she wanted to know why her Microsoft Office looked so different now and "Where did Outlook go?" We had a good laugh over how Linux is so easy you can install and configure it by accident now, even on a laptop.
Hat tip to Robert Pogson for spotting this. The comment by IT pro oiaohm is, as always, insightful (once you adjust for his dyslexia).
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:54PM
Yes, drivers for Linux are pretty much known today, and ship with the distro. Linux is vastly superior to Windows in that respect. Except, when it doesn't work. For instance, I bought a "gaming" keyboard. No drivers. Some keys don't work, and the keymapping is messed up. So, I go searching, and only one guy on the entire internet has anything that resembles my keyboard. It's not my keyboard exactly, but it resembles mine. Attempt to install, it doesn't work straight up. Go back and read his documentation, and it looks like I might make it work. Fiddle around with it for awhile, almost give up, take one more crack at it, and WHOO-HOOO! It works!
Azio keyboard . . . http://swoogan.blogspot.com/2014/09/azio-l70-keyboard-linux-driver.html [blogspot.com]
So, I have one bit of hardware for which I had to work. Compare that to my first ten or twenty attempts to install Linux, during which I logged failure after failure.