I think the post title is understated, since I had a related thought: it's not hard to install most Linux distros on a laptop, and this post will intimidate people.
This post is about how one person did it on hard mode, to get it just how they want it. That's fine.
I suspect that most of the people on HN could pretty easily install Debian, without documentation (just write this file raw to a USB flash drive, boot the laptop from it, and mostly accept the defaults from the menus):
This post is about how one person did it on hard mode, to get it just how they want it. That's fine.
I suspect that most of the people on HN could pretty easily install Debian, without documentation (just write this file raw to a USB flash drive, boot the laptop from it, and mostly accept the defaults from the menus):
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/d...