I always hear that a normal computer user would never install an OS and that is the main reason Linux has not a higher market share. But I guess what we mean by that is that a user would never create a live usb, access the boot options and boot from there to install the new OS.

Is there a hard technical limitation when it comes to create a tool that installs a linux distro from a “normal” windows exe file, provided that the user first disables secure boot and fast boot (which are things a tool with admin privileges should also be able do on first run)?

Does such a tool already exist?

I feel like there’s something I’m missing, forgive my ignorance

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Yes https://codeberg.org/viperultra/linixify-gui

    Yes, I created such a tool,it works starting from windows vista, but it is not easy because of some features. From Windows, we must predict the name as the device will be called in Linux because the Mint installer does not know how to work with UUID for an automated installation, and then how the Ubuntu is changing the installer for parameters. This is a real hell

  • Luffy@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 months ago

    If you have more than 1 Drive, you can just use a bash script and 7zip to unzip Linux to the drive, that does it

    Otherwise you would have to resize a mounted partition, which is just more of a risk than smacking that user with a frying pan until he decides to learn how to install an OS

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 months ago

      Another way explicitly banned by OP is running a script, which prepares a live USB drive and reboot to it. One would argue it’s the same process as your resizing a mounted partition method.