On 2026-03-06, Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I already knew it and always found it too excited for a topic which > leaves a lot of room for discussion and but-what-if arguments. > Pete Batard is as proud of his work as we Linux isohybriders are of > ours. But his text lets him appear deeply annoyed by the expectations > of GNU/Linux developers and users. (I cannot judge what a user of > MS-Windows expects as natural. To my meager experience they mostly > expect sudden disaster.)
On that dernière note, I bought a Lenovo Slimpad 5 for my better half. She wanted Windows; the machine has Windows 11 on it, and it's a real pain in the ass. Very, very annoying. I would've thrown the machine out the window, if it hadn't cost me 800€. We're on the third floor. YMMV. > Some of the technical arguments against "dd" are valid. That's why i > made a shell script which shall keep the non-Windows users from > overwriting their hard disk by mistake and also cares for the perils > of previously GPT partitioned USB sticks. > https://packages.debian.org/unstable/xorriso-dd-target > https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > >
