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|    Paul to All    |
|    Re: why doesn't 'buntu offer a dual-boot    |
|    12 Nov 25 20:03:00    |
      From: nospam@needed.invalid              On Wed, 11/12/2025 3:41 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:       > On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:59:07 -0400, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:       >       >> On 2025-11-11 11:43 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:       >>>       >>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:34:23 -0400, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:       >>>       >>>> I was testing Debian "Trixie" and it has an option to install itself       >>>> alongside your existing OS, and you can do this by selecting a single       >>>> option. But 'buntu makes you repartition your disk-drive manually.       >>       >>> Could it be because if dual-boot goes wrong, it requires a certain degree       >>> of knowledge to fix? Knowledge which unlikely to be present at the skill       >>> level at which Ubuntu is targeted.       >>       >> That is not even remoptely possibble since it's a prooven fact that       >> Linux uzers are all scientific geniuses.       >       > Linux-envy, anybody?       >              It's a 'leet population, fer sure.              It's all that building from source, that gives the peeps their skillz.              By the way, I saw a picture of Linux Grandma the other day!       Maybe we can have her picture put on some T-shirts.       "If she can do it, so can we".               Paul              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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