I was struggling to get an OS installed on my cousin’s dell at one point. This machine came with that Intel Optane…shit with a spinning rust hard drive, I was replacing it with a straight-up NVMe SSD. Windows would get well into the install process, and then bomb out with an error that was something like 0x123a039f34798cd76eb1 UNDEFINED ERROR. This of course was in the Windows installer, which isn’t a functioning desktop environment, so I had to type that manually into my laptop to google it, and got very few results.
I tried Linux Mint, and it apparently had the same problem. It said something like “BIOS Storage config error. Unable to mount file system. It may be that such and such setting is incorrect in the BIOS. See this page for further details.” The last sentence was a hyperlink to a wiki that discussed the problem, which opened in Firefox because this installer runs in a live environment, AND IT HAD A QR CODE LINK IN THE ERROR MESSAGE to the same page so you could easily copy the link to an external device. Y’all that was a white glove concierge deep tissue massage of an error message.
One time, when I tried to install the Windows installation tool on a stick, an error said something like (German) “Aus irgendeinem Grund konnte die Installation nicht abgeschlossen werden”. “Aus irgendeinem Grund” literally translates to “for some reason”.
Last time I tried Windows (with Windows 10), I actually struggled properly installing my graphics drivers. IDK what the issue even was, but after trying unsuccessfully for a while I just wiped the Windows partition and stuck with Linux.
Yeah, with Windows I just pray it won’t break, cause if it does I might as well reinstall. And of course installing Windows, installing drivers and updating the system takes hours. How they made it that slow is beyond me.
Honestly my Windows 10 experience wasn’t much different.
Atleast I can actually fix most of the issues that pop up on Linux
I was struggling to get an OS installed on my cousin’s dell at one point. This machine came with that Intel Optane…shit with a spinning rust hard drive, I was replacing it with a straight-up NVMe SSD. Windows would get well into the install process, and then bomb out with an error that was something like 0x123a039f34798cd76eb1 UNDEFINED ERROR. This of course was in the Windows installer, which isn’t a functioning desktop environment, so I had to type that manually into my laptop to google it, and got very few results.
I tried Linux Mint, and it apparently had the same problem. It said something like “BIOS Storage config error. Unable to mount file system. It may be that such and such setting is incorrect in the BIOS. See this page for further details.” The last sentence was a hyperlink to a wiki that discussed the problem, which opened in Firefox because this installer runs in a live environment, AND IT HAD A QR CODE LINK IN THE ERROR MESSAGE to the same page so you could easily copy the link to an external device. Y’all that was a white glove concierge deep tissue massage of an error message.
…and that was the last time I tried to install windows, or so I imagine the end. :)
No, I installed Windows on the machine I built for her to replace that one. THAT was the last time I’ve installed Windows on anything.
Got it. My wife is about ready to jump ship after seeing me running linux on my daily for half a year with heavy tasks.
She‘s jealous of the customization and versatility of linux.
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One time, when I tried to install the Windows installation tool on a stick, an error said something like (German) “Aus irgendeinem Grund konnte die Installation nicht abgeschlossen werden”. “Aus irgendeinem Grund” literally translates to “for some reason”.
All other times, reinstall OS and keep /home/.
I will pretend that i haven’t seen that “other” there
Last time I tried Windows (with Windows 10), I actually struggled properly installing my graphics drivers. IDK what the issue even was, but after trying unsuccessfully for a while I just wiped the Windows partition and stuck with Linux.
Yeah, with Windows I just pray it won’t break, cause if it does I might as well reinstall. And of course installing Windows, installing drivers and updating the system takes hours. How they made it that slow is beyond me.