• Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    I’ve literally never installed an operating system. I can pretty confidently say that most of the people I know have never installed an operating system either.

    I probably could follow all those steps because I’ve had experience navigating my computer’s BIOS, but most people don’t even know what a BIOS is. To ask them to navigate and make sense of it without detailed instructions is pretty unfair.

    The fediverse is a very niche place, and the general tech savvyness that’s common here should not be taken as an actual measure of how tech savvy the general population is.

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      12 hours ago

      What’s crazy is you can actually learn how to do things by trying, it’s crazy! I didn’t know how to install Linux either when I was 12, but just searching for information I was able to learn how to do it.

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      17 hours ago

      This is a much better explanation of what my point.

      Everytime I’ve tried to do anything in my BIOS the guide has an option to do something that doesn’t exist for me