No I’m going to tell you that is still irrelevant. The OP said:
I’ve had one that thought that “SSD” was a kind of RAM, and insisted on installing Windows on a hard drive.
It seems the student thought a SSD is RAM in the sense of “volatile CPU storage” and thus unfit for an OS install. And a SSD is not RAM in that sense of the word.
Next you’re going to tell me Apple Macs are not PCs.
No I’m going to tell you that is still irrelevant. The OP said:
It seems the student thought a SSD is RAM in the sense of “volatile CPU storage” and thus unfit for an OS install. And a SSD is not RAM in that sense of the word.