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    This image was created by /u/kuebic@discuss.tchncs.de for this comment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21735989. I had encouraged them to post it somewhere, but as far as I can tell, they never did.

    Panel 1: “Installing Windows 20 years ago” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
    Panel 2: “Installing Linux 20 years ago” screenshot of a busy command line
    Panel 3: “Installing Windows today” screenshot of a busy command line
    Panel 4: “Installing Linux today” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons

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    [–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Installing windows for most of that time hasn't been a thing people do. They bought a computer and it had the internets (the picture with the blue e) and the word (the picture with the paper and a W) and that was pretty much them sorted. We're weird for knowing the difference and that's not a bad thing to be.

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    [–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)
    [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Caldera had a GUI installer in 1998…

    Caldera OpenLinux Installer

    [–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

    IIRC, Caldera also had a Tetris clone in the installer, so you could play while it installed itself.

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    [–] ulterno@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Also, Green on Black is subjectively better than White on Blue.

    spoilerNo puns here.
    Keep it out of the gutter.

    [–] criticon@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    20 years ago it was way easier to install Linux from a boot disk (like ubuntu or suse) than windows from scratch. Sometimes XP didn't have the necessary drives and you'd need to find bootable drivers and load them from a floppy disk

    It was even easier to install OSx86 on my laptop than windows vista from scratch in 2007

    Maybe this is one of those thinking that 20 years ago was the 90s

    [–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    I remember reformatting a Windows computer to get a fresh install and I had to find the driver CD and install a driver for audio, internet and other very basic stuff.

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    [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    i installed mandrake in 2004. It came with a nice graphical installer.

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    [–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    I am new to linux Mint and mullvad had an update ready, so i clicked update. It just stayed downloading on 0% for like 5 minutes, so i remembered this ISN'T WINDOWS. So i opened terminal and sudo apt upgrade and Mullvad was updated and new version installed.

    It's weird how windows makes things looks easy, but then they don't work well. Linux makes things look difficult, but it they work well.

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    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 21 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    Uhhh. No.

    Is this like the time that travel journalist was in Hungary, saw 1 cow, that happened to be white, then wrote "all the cows in Hungary are white"?

    Over 20 years ago, I installed linux with a gui (suse, as easy as ubuntu to install, before ubuntu), and still could. At the same time, could also install Gentoo, and still do. Free to choose how to install linux, any of many ways, gui or not, then as now.

    ... Was this made by a windows user, and windows only gives you one way, and they thought that's what it was like with Free Software too?

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    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    windows xp WAS NOT 20 years ago

    [–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 48 points 2 days ago (15 children)

    24 years ago! Don't forget to schedule your colonoscopy.

    October 25, 2001

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP

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