I am working on windows 10 currently. I was wondering if MX Linux could be installed directly from online. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (18 children)

I think this really highlights a gap in Linux adoption. This makes me wonder how many people would install Linux if they could just click one button in their web browser to guide them through the process of replacing Windows.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Ubuntu used to offer a tool that was only a bit more involves than that

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked.

    endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work--with some caveats: it's slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that's in development will change pretty much everything 'under the hood' that makes endless what it is, as they're moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    There used to be a thing called Wubi. Allowed you to install Ubuntu basically like a program/app. It's how I first got into it. I'd tried a little before, but Wubi allowed me to turn my little netbook it's a Linux machine because it didn't have a CD drive. It was great. I've never really understood why that couldn't be done again. Lowered to bar to entry a great deal.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    The issue here is if you can't be unassed to learn how to install Linux what are you going to do when you have problems. There's a web installer for GrapheneOS it could probably be used as an entry point for someone to create the same for a.distro.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    No, the point is that we should ensure that people can use Linux without needing deep technical support.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Who's we, you got a mouse in your pocket?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Sometimes. But I felt that I could talk for more than just myself.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think it could work if it was a paid or had a service contract that insures support from creator so the person can have someone to help diagnose and correct things for a few months after install. Like I said in my initial comment GrapheneOS made it work but they only support a few generations of Pixel hardware desktop Linux supports most hardware going back 30 odd years it would be a nightmare.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yep similar to steam os / steam deck. It's really good user experience, ticks all the boxes of what a lot of linux evangelists claim the windows will all want to switch to . It's even surprisingly usable in desktop mode (with mouse and keyboard).

    That's what you can do with linux on defined hardware and with a dedicated team paid by a fairly large corpo making cash out of the users.

    But the linux user base is way more diverse than that - not everyone is going to want graphene , or steamOS type thing. especially not just to pander to windozers.

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