A Megaton Of New Linux Benchmarks Are Coming

[nilssab]

I was thinking they had a pre installed Linux

My point is that it doesn't really matter how easy it becomes, to really work for them it needs to be done for them. I also think that it's fair enough I'm probably not to grate at there hobbies either

This is true, but this should(no joke) be common sense and a part of computer literacy. If navigating the windows C: drive etc and using MS word, excel, powerpoint etc can be considered common sense, so can installing linux and using LibreOffice.
This should should really be considered since it seems that without it common people don't even have the capability to choose an OS for themselves, the value of which should be reason enough to make it happen.

If this is not a requirement even for computer science focused high schools there really is something wrong.

[AJenbo]

How can you make a mistake in deleting an existing OS that is not already installed?

I was more referring to the 'tone' of the respondents with regards to people wrecking their system while trying to use linux.

I was thinking they had a pre installed Linux

My point is that it doesn't really matter how easy it becomes, to really work for them it needs to be done for them. I also think that it's fair enough I'm probably not to grate at there hobbies either

[devius]

How can you make a mistake in deleting an existing OS that is not already installed?

Have you ever tried installing windows on a PC with any other OS installed?

[Rexilion]

Because it isn't pre installed on more systems. The same mistake could be performed using the windows install disk

How can you make a mistake in deleting an existing OS that is not already installed?

I was more referring to the 'tone' of the respondents with regards to people wrecking their system while trying to use linux.

[AJenbo]

I still have no idea why Linux is not gaining more popularity despite is (perceived) 'improvements'/advantages over Windows...

Because it isn't pre installed on more systems. The same mistake could be performed using the windows install disk

[Rexilion]

He, last time I saw that (a week or two ago) some one used manual partitioning, deleting all partisions and set them up in a way where the system woudn't boot. Then was supprised when he coudn't do a Windows recovery.

The last dude i heared about cried the Ubuntu installer deleted his Windows and of course its a bug ... -.-

I still have no idea why Linux is not gaining more popularity despite is (perceived) 'improvements'/advantages over Windows...

[zanny]

I don't know about that. There are lots of people on the Arch forums that are new to Linux, started with Arch and seemed to have no problems installing it. It's probably the distro with the best documentation and user guides.

Also, Antegeros installs a basic Arch system like any other distro, and then you have derivatives like Manjaro and Chakra that try to play the mainstream card. You can definitely get a pacman distribution installed even if you aren't a veteran.

[tuke81]

Oh hey, CX430s. Nice choice, I'm running one right now as well.

Old(first) ones were okay, newer versions uses crappy chinese capacitors(samxon and teapo ). I would have rather took i.e. 450W xfx power supply instead.

[devius]

Too bad is not that accessible to the starting Linux user.

I don't know about that. There are lots of people on the Arch forums that are new to Linux, started with Arch and seemed to have no problems installing it. It's probably the distro with the best documentation and user guides.

[zanny]

Even though it lags behind rawhide fedora

Enable testing and you have nearly the same packages running against Rawhide. That is what separates Arch from a literal no mans land of untested bleeding edge software.