Hello everyone. I installed Ubuntu 2 months ago. I recently looked back at some online tutorials and noticed many still start with deep UEFI/BIOS and partitioning explanations.
While I now understand why this info exists, it was overwhelming as a complete beginner. I wonder if having a clearer “quick start” path for simple installations would help more people get started comfortably.
Just an observation. What do you think?
“Some online tutorials” seems a bit vague.
No idea which ones you might be looking at.
Having gone from being new to computers and Ubuntu to being a long term Ubuntu user, I have lived through the transition from BIOS to UEFI and the difficulties new Ubuntu users have who do not understand how the change to UEFI made installing Ubuntu more difficult.
From Windows 7 onwards I have seen many posts/topics from would be Ubuntu users who just could not understand why their attempt to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows failed.
It gets boring telling people over and over again what they did wrong. Along with the need to explain the difference between legacy mode and UFI mode. Or, should that be BIOS mode and UEFI mode or even, CSM mode and UEFI mode. Actually, it is all three.
Oh, by the way, CSM = Compatibility Support Module. I had to look it up. Over the years I have memorized dozens of acronyms and then forgotten their meaning. I am weary of it all.
If there are official tutorials that explain it all then I am glad.
Regards
Thanks. I was referring to popular tutorials on Bilibili, a Chinese platform. Many top videos start with UEFI/BIOS instructions. My core question is simpler: since the installer itself has an easy ‘just install’ option, why don’t those tutorials highlight that first for beginners?”
It is fun to speculate, but why not ask those authors? (Whom we are not)
Well said. But my real goal here is to start a discussion: why is this type of tutorial so common in the first place?
Because people like to make things complicated?
Because complicated things look more professional to many people than simple solutions?
Another question: why do people not use the installation instructions provided by Ubuntu?
That‘s exactly the point! Many beginners don’t even know the official instructions exist. Their first instinct is to search on video platforms or forums in their own language. The most visible results there are often these comprehensive (and therefore complex) tutorials. So the cycle continues.
I guess this is somewhat getting off topic but I think the real problem is that users can’t properly filter and categorize information from the internet. And relevant information on the internet is increasingly obscured by imprecise, inaccurate, or even false information making it hard to find appropriate information.
So go ahead and create a localized version for them that they can use 
If you do not want to do it alone, reach out to a LoCo team covering that part of the world and team up with them to make it happen. (and then you need to make it popular enough that it gets found before the bad ones from unofficial sources which will be the harder part I guess)