• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Given that this is the crucial first step in installing Linux on a new computer, the fact that there is so much mystery and arbitrariness around it seems to me pretty revealing and symptomatic of Linux’s general inability to reach ordinary folks.

    Thanks for the information.

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      This isn’t mystery, they’re saying any old command that prints out or copies a file’s contents will do.

      If you need to use a tool that “just works” without growing your own understanding, there’s plenty of GUI-centric bootable USB writers out there.