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My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS" (lemmy.world)
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My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can't use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers

I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, "This is the app store. Everything you'll ever need is here, and if you can't find something just tell me and I'll add it there". I also set up bottles telling him "Your non-steam games are here". He installed Steam and other apps himself

I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS...

The tech support questions and stuff like "Can you install this for me?" or "Is this a virus?" dropped to zero. He only asks me things like "What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux" once in a while

After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is "like iOS" and he absolutely loved it

I use Arch and he keeps telling me "Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora". He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

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[–] BrandoCalrissian9229@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah, that's always been the way I've understood it, but it seems like not many laptops these days have multiple drives

[–] hillbicks@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is absolutely possible to dual boot from a single harddrive. Don't know about fedora, but the Ubuntu installer has taken care of that for ages now. Yes, it can fuck your windows install initially, but that is normally reversible.

If you don't know, a computer uses so called partitions and not the hard drive directly. Think of them as folders. Normally you have one partition which holds the bootloader information (one or two OS, or more) and then a partition for each OS. A little Programm after Turning on the computer let's you choose which OS you want to boot.

A lone Linux installation often has three partitions on one harddrive. One boot Partition, one for the OS and one for the home directory of all users. This way you can reinstall the OS without loosing your home directory.

[–] BrandoCalrissian9229@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I see! The three partition system seems very handy.

[–] paolabonacini@mastodon.uno 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@BrandoCalrissian9229 that's definitely true. You could use an external ssd, if you have problems

[–] BrandoCalrissian9229@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I may end up doing that. Or one of those USB 3.0 Flash Drives.

[–] paolabonacini@mastodon.uno 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@BrandoCalrissian9229 I think this solution is the one that could give you less headache, if none at all.