Maybe it is the year of the Linux desktop: on Elon Musk's support of Linux

Elon throws truckloads of spaghetti at the wall and it’s not even clear if it’s to find out if it will stick or just because he enjoys throwing spaghetti.

Writing this whole post based on 1 comment about Linux on the desktop and another complaining about Windows is a little silly IMHO. Quoting a few people on twitter has always been silly in news articles (you can find 1-3 people saying literally anything on twitter to back up your point). While Elon is more famous (infamous?) than the people normally quoted, he says enough random things that taking any one thing he says literally is worthless.

I recently had the experience of wiping windows of an Asus laptop I bought and the process was trickier than usual. It turns out that the 'USB Image Writer' that comes with linux and that you use to create a USB drive with the linux of your choice is no longer up to the task. The bios of the laptop would not allow the USB to boot up unless I created the USB with an entirely different software, in my case I used the balenaEtcher software (I believe other software will work too) to create the USB and only then would the USB boot up and allow me to wipe and reconfigure the partitions on the 'hard drive' (which in this case was an SSD).

It took me an extra couple of hours to get this to finally work. At this point I'm not sure if it's only the new Asus bios that are doing this unfriendly thing or if it's an industry trend.

A real pain in the ass in any case.

But we already have space-karen-linux, it's called ubuntu.