• wahming@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nah you’re overthinking it. Grab a beginner friendly distro like Mint and just start using it. All this is fanboy talk that can be interesting but doesn’t affect 99% of users.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it’s not like most Windows users understand a lot about Windows, including how to install Windows, or what an operating system is.

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          7 months ago

          They’re technically right, the best kind of right. That said, I too hate Microsoft leaning into this Apple marketing bullshit and trying to monopolize the term personal computer for Windows.

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            Although, you could argue that some of the modern computers that only support UEFI booting and no longer have BIOS booting support aren’t actually PCs since the PC bios is a pretty big part of what traditionally defined a PC compatible system