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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: 3, Interesting) by Dunbal on Saturday October 24 2015, @07:32PM
Let's see if this [goodbye-microsoft.com] works...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @07:40PM
My family didn't want to use Linux, so I snuck it on and gave it a Windows makeover. It looks like Windows, but doesn't stink like Windows.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday October 25 2015, @02:59PM
Did they notice the difference? It would be interesting if you posted your experiences as a follow-up story to this one.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday October 24 2015, @07:55PM
At least that is a link to the download page. If you'd gone to the actual download link, you might be strung up here for trying to trick folks into installing systemd.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday October 25 2015, @12:11AM
I was just going to say, http://files.devuan.org/ [devuan.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @03:04AM
Get antiX 15 (Core, Base, or Full). [sourceforge.net]
Other non-Sourceforge options [google.com]
Unlike that never-had-a-real-release distro, antiX (pronounced "Antiques") has been around since 2007. [blogspot.com]
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:48AM
You gotta wonder who made the decision to leave a PXE source on the network. And who turn pxe boot on in her bios?
Sounds like TFA author might have had a hand in that. A subtle trap set to do exactly this, or an oversight?
PXE Boot, for the uninitiated will often boot any machine that fails to find a bootable disk (or diskette back in the day) but which has network boot turned on in the bios. [soylentnews.org]
In yee olden times, you had to jumper nic cards to enable PXE boot, but with on-board nics, that went into the bios on many machines. Its probably gone now, or with UEFI bios.
(Here's where You should all run off and check your bios settings to make sure you haven't left that on.)
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:49AM
Ooops, I horked that link: http://www.howtogeek.com/57601/what-is-network-booting-pxe-and-how-can-you-use-it/ [howtogeek.com]
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