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Back in the days before every desktop and laptop was sold as a "PC" or an "Apple", and every phone was an "Android" or an "iPhone", people had a better idea of what an "operating system" was. As the tech landscape consolidated around a few dominant players, their brands hid the reality that hardware and software were different things and that users had more than two choices. In fact, today, it is difficult to even find a computer that isn't pre-installed with one of the two dominant operating systems, Windows or macOS.
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The **operating** system is the name for the core software that makes individual hardware components of a computer work together, gives the user a way to interact with them, and makes it easy to write and run software applications on top of them. Operating systems make storage drives accessible as folders and files, turns screens into desktops, and allows you to use keyboards and mice to drive things. Operating systems load programs into memory and execute them on purpose-tailored hardware chips like central processing units (CPUs), graphical processing units (GPUs), and neural processing units (NPUs).
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Apple makes all of their own hardware and they work hard to only allow only _their_ operating system, macOS run on it. Most of the rest of the hardware on the market, though, was created by a bunch of different companies who, in order to and compete, made their hardware more openly, collaborating together to specify standard ways of using and assembling their various components. Before Microsoft there were dozens of different operating systems that worked with this open hardware. Microsoft introduced one of the first text-based operating systems that could run on IBM and Intel hardware in 1982 (MSDOS), and their graphical operating systems (Windows 3.1) in 1993 and, through savvy business and legal positioning came to be the default operating system on over 90% of all personal computers.
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Wild Cloud recommends installing Ubuntu directly on a dedicated computer to be your operator machine. This provides the best performance and compatibility for running Wild Cloud operations.
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When you install Ubuntu directly on a computer without using WSL or a virtual machine, it's known as installing on "**bare metal**". ⚡
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You can use just about any desktop or laptop computer made in the last 10 years as your operator machine. You can't install Ubuntu on Apple hardware, though. Just keep in mind you will probably want a lot of disk space for backups of your Wild Cloud either on your operator machine or on an attached external drive.
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3. Boot the dedicated machine from the USB drive. Many computers will allow you to do this by simply inserting the USB drive and restarting the computer. Some computers are not set to boot from the USB drive, though, so you'll need to access the boot menu (usually by pressing a key like F12, Esc, or Del immediately after turning on the computer) and select the USB drive as the boot device. If you can't figure out how to get to the boot menu, search for your computer model + "boot menu" the the search engine of your choice.
4. Follow the prompts to install Ubuntu on the dedicated machine. There aren't a ton of options to pick and it usually doesn't take long, maybe a half-hour.
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You will be doing everything to operate your Wild Cloud from your operator machine. Treat yourself and make it a nice one!
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🛟 Need help with these instructions? Ask questions in the [Wild Cloud forum](https://forum.civilsociety.dev/t/wild-cloud-support/15).