• Synapse@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Installing regular Windows 10/11 is definitely more than twice as painful than installing Debian 12.

    Once, I was trying to install Windows 10 and wasted an entire day! The installation would systematically fail at the beginning of the installation with a BS error message that doesn’t give any hint about what’s going wrong. In the end it just didn’t like USB3 as an installation media! I reflashed it to a USB2 and it worked, but OMG was it super slow ! It took literally hours to install !!!

    Debian, even as a noobie, you’ll go from flashing your ISO to a booted system within an hour. If you’ve done it once before, you will get it done in 20 minutes.

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      3 days ago

      What the hell. I’ve never seen such an issue. Microsoft is so considerate; they provide us with cool little surprises like that from time to time. ♥️

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      3 days ago

      It works over USB 3.0, it sounds like you just have a broken or corrupt drive.

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        3 days ago

        It normal does work with USB3, yes. And no, this pendrive works perfectly fine and I’ve used it to install many other OSes since.

        Edit: and I might add that I finally found the solution online so I was definitely not the only one confronted to this problem