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    Windows VS Linux (lemmy.world)
    submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    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. ♥️

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    I've seen it a lot (I do PC builds/repairs as a side gig). I just assume it will cause me grief from the start and keep both USB2 and USB3 sticks handy.

    To be fair I've had the issue with Unraid too, but only on one brand's B450 motherboards in my testing. I didn't have a whole bunch to try of course but MSI and Asus was fine, Gigabyte not. X570 didn't have this problem in my experience.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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