Would it be possible to lower barrier to entry that low?
To the point where installing some Linux distro would be as easy as installing a game on Steam or installing an application on a phone?
There is existing software for installing Linux from Windows.
For example, old WUBI for installing Ubuntu, and linixify-gui (fork of abandoned tunic) apparently does this as well.

So question is, should there be some effort put into making a modern installer of this kind? Something that even the person with the smoothest brain can use to get Linux on their PC?

Are there any existing projects that try to make this happen?

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    There does exist a tool that does it. The creator posted about it on the fediverse. It only supported ubuntu at the time but looked extremely promising.

    I cannot remember it’s name. :/

    Maybe it’s linixify? But I remember seeing a post on lemmy with a youtube demo?

    • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
      3·
      2 days ago

      I can swear Ubuntu was able to just do this out of the box years ago, as long as you were okay with the Ubuntu partition being FAT32…

      • anarchaos@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 hours ago

        you’d still have to boot from cd, but i do recall one of the early versions happily moving everything from your old windows install. i’m still moving around my wife’s files from her xp install every time i need to set up a new /home part for her.