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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:09PM
How'd her Windows install go "corrupt"?
She's the type of person who uses Outlook for e-mail, so what could she have done that screwed up her boot sector to the point that Windows wouldn't even try to load its "Windows was improperly shut down, please choose an option" menu? If the hard drive had actually gone bad, she wouldn't have been able to "install Linux".
And there is a terrific distinction between KDE (even plasma5) and every Windows desktop ever. Even my 99.9% tech illiterate parents know that my KDE desktop isn't a standard Windows desktop.
This whole story seems like something someone made up on reddit or 4chan. It just doesn't work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:13PM
...and who set up and WHY did they set up PXE to boot an automated installer for some Linux desktop distro?
I could understand them doing some server type deal if I was properly convinced, but something with KDE? Nah...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:44PM
And windows can do the *SAME* *EXACT* *THING* https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.07.desktopfiles.aspx [microsoft.com] It has for years.
What a *non* story. Some IT dept setup PXE to setup linux with a very hands off approach. Uh huh. Yeah aaaaaaaaand?
Sure it is pretty cool when it works. My company uses it to do windows installs. With a menu in front of it to 'pick your laptop'.
Sounds more like 'incompetent IT dept setup windows for auto boot in a windows shop'. So yeah she was 'ok' for a bit. The software she needed was not there and it burned out 2-3 days of your time.
(Score: 2) by sjwt on Sunday October 25 2015, @03:43AM
With all the media coverage about windows 10 downloading and updating automatically, this is one of those times i'd call on the side of belief..
"Hey, Windows 10 just updated to my computer, and I don't know how to do anything!!!"
(Score: 1) by Bogsnoticus on Monday October 26 2015, @04:37AM
I've had more than one user call up and complain their system wont boot. Diagnosis showed there was no longer a Windows directory. The user had deleted to "get more hard drive".
I also have worked for a few firms where they have it defaulted to PXE in case of no HDD, so they can easily perform a remote rebuild without having to send a tech to the site.
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