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What the hell. I sure ain't letting a Python script in Alpha stage written with Claude mess with my PC's partitions. You can totally create a small FAT32 partition yourself, get the ISO's content in there and boot from it. No USB key required.
Also the take that it's not Free Software if you're buying a USB key is so plain wrong. It's free as in freedom, not free beer. You still get to pay for the hardware, but with free software you get to own it too.
Yeah the "free operating system" stuff is wrong af. The guy clearly doesn't understand what free software means.
What do the F and L stand for in FLOSS?
"Free" and "libre". But this has only ever referred to the software itself, not to the hardware needed to use it.
That should be obvious, since otherwise almost no OSS would be FLOSS. After all, you have to buy a PC or another device to run it
i agree - the last letter in FLOSS stands for software, and everything before that is describing qualities of that software. the term has nothing to do with hardware per say in my opinion.
Do yourself a favor and get a USB stick with Linux on it, regardless of whether or not you are going to use it to install Linux.
When stuff breaks, you'll regret not having a bootable media like that. Also, if you are using windows and Bitlocker (the default these days), then be sure to store your encryption keys somewhere, where you can easily access them. Otherwise you won't be able to access your Windows drives