You’re asking what our thoughts are on the high fantasy works that defined high fantasy? You’ll need to be a little more specific 😂
My thought on Andy Serkins’ reading is that it is the best audiobook ever made in the history of audiobooks. Regardless of whether one even likes the books, it’s still arguably the best reading of a work.
I’ve read all of those (yes, even The Silmarillion). They’re the only high fantasy works I’ve read, so I’m not in a position to compare it to others in the genre. I’m not interested in the genre in general, but AFAIK these are unique in terms of the depth and breadth of world building that he sets them in. ~20,000 years of astoundingly detailed history of an area the size of Europe, a sumptuous attention to languages, and a whole cosmology laid out from the beginning of time.
The Silmarillion is for masochists only. I only read it because I was trapped somewhere once with no internet and nothing to do for a long time. A lot of it reads like the Old Testament (I think: hell if I’m ever going to pore through the Bible).
The work is racist and reactionary; divine rights of kings and such. From an ML-perspective it’s hot garbage. But whatever, it’s not like it’ll give you liberal cooties.
From what I hear, the Netflix show would be considered non-canon, if you care about such things. It compresses thousands of years into a human lifetime. I only watched the first three-or-so episodes and lost interest. I’m not very interested in a series that makes minced meat of the world that’s already built in my head from the original material, especially when high fantasy isn’t even my bag.
I’m not sure that I understand what you mean. Are you saying that you want to be able to load the OS without having to reboot your computer? Or are you saying that you just don’t want to have to click the equivalent of “try the OS” when booting a live USB? If it’s the latter, you should be able to just select the flash drive as the install point (though, tbc, I have never tried this, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work) (I think you’d need 2 USBs, though — you’d need 1 to be the installer source, and one to be the install point — I don’t think theres any installer that can run as a desktop application. Though, if it’s Arch Linux, you might actually be able to call pacstrap from the host OS — I’ve never tried this after having already installed the OS). There’s even OS’s that are specifically designed to be ephemeral on hardware in this way — eg Tails OS.
Btw, this is also basically how you install Arch. As of until recently there wasn’t any installer and you had to go through each step manually (create partitions and fs, chroot, install the base system with <insert distro specific tool>, update fstab, distro specific finishing touches, voilà)
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