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All things considered, installing an operating system should really be difficult and arcane. It controls your computer. After starting everything up, it loads the drivers, runs every program, orchestrates how software and hardware work together, provides the computer user interface, and determines how you will work with your machine.
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Haines, N. (2015). Installing Ubuntu. In: Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0608-9_1
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