I was in a Best Buy recently for the first time in over ten years. The poor folks at the Geek Squad counter lined up with their pre-built PCs needing help for the simplest things--yeah, most people don’t have a clue.
In 35 years, I’ve never bought a pre-built PC, I’ve built my own. So, yeah, I’m not a typical user, even though I don’t really know shit compared to many.
Installing Linux isn’t hard if all you want is an OS to open Firefox. However, the minute you venture into gaming and video drivers, networking, mounting and sharing drives, etc. it gets a bit more hairy. The guy standing at the counter asking why the pictures he thought he pulled off his phone don’t show up in explorer isn’t going to be editing an fstab file anytime soon.
I’m a gamer and this is my concern. I have a prebuilt gaming laptop because I travel for work and wouldn’t be able to take a full gaming rig with me for fear of damage or total loss.
I want to build my own rig but never been in one place long enough to warrant it. Hopefully one day
I was in a Best Buy recently for the first time in over ten years. The poor folks at the Geek Squad counter lined up with their pre-built PCs needing help for the simplest things--yeah, most people don’t have a clue.
In 35 years, I’ve never bought a pre-built PC, I’ve built my own. So, yeah, I’m not a typical user, even though I don’t really know shit compared to many.
Installing Linux isn’t hard if all you want is an OS to open Firefox. However, the minute you venture into gaming and video drivers, networking, mounting and sharing drives, etc. it gets a bit more hairy. The guy standing at the counter asking why the pictures he thought he pulled off his phone don’t show up in explorer isn’t going to be editing an fstab file anytime soon.
I’m a gamer and this is my concern. I have a prebuilt gaming laptop because I travel for work and wouldn’t be able to take a full gaming rig with me for fear of damage or total loss.
I want to build my own rig but never been in one place long enough to warrant it. Hopefully one day