Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
For someone who can follow instructions, I think the hardest part of the process for any of them is booting from the install media. Every machine is different. On one you need to hold Del while it boots, another you need to press F2, another it’s F8. Sometimes you have to go into the BIOS and other times it’s a dedicated boot menu. And if you mess it up you have to turn it off and start again. It’s been a long time since I’ve used a Mac but I feel like that was some keyboard compo you had to hold on boot.
I would say the two things you need to be someone who can do it are: Confidence (you aren’t scared of irreparably breaking it), and good Google skills. The number of people with both these things I think is pretty small, even though the actual process is simple.