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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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    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Getting help with Linux 15-20 years ago: some forum full with slurs telling you to google it

    Getting help with Windows 15-20 years ago: "Do this and this, if that fails look up data backup methods before the reinstall."

    Getting help with Linux now: various Wikis and blogs. The hazard of finding an AI hallucinated blog post is significant, but can be blocked.

    Getting help with Windows now: support forums owned by Microsoft filled with users telling they have the same issue, and AI agents hallucinating solutions.

    [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    to be fair, some linux forums still have toxic members, and some others while probably not toxic, are still a bit harsh with people

    [–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    Getting help with Linux 15-20 years ago: some forum full with slurs telling you to google it

    No it wasn't, where we you going for help lol?

    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    On the forums asking for help.

    [–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

    What forums? In 2005 every forum I went to was really helpful, friendly, and nothing like what you describe.

    Certainly there was a little bit of internet snarkiness I would imagine, but I remember everyone being pretty nice to each other.

    I decided to go back and look using the way back machine and went through a few threads, everyone is being really nice and helpful to each other.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 16 hours ago

    Same experience.

    Huge part of what kept me in the community of the Free Software philosophy.

    It's in the 4 freedoms. Free to use, study, share and change, the software. That's the enabled and protected spirit of helping each other.

    Assertions of contrary, has me wonder what those offering those other assertions were doing to get that kind of reception and impression.

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    [–] JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

    Now both sides meet in the middle: GUI for setup, terminal for fixing the one thing that breaks.

    [–] kepix@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    3 out of 4 panels should be a picture where the operating system cant find the proper drivers

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    [–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

    For anyone who's coming from. Windows world desktop environment DE is just look and feel of is you can change it or i install multiple of those. Most famous are GNOME KDE, etc. Distro is something that someone packaged together DE and a tool (pakage? Managet) to gether there are essentially 3****** distros Debian :, rhel., and arch Ubuntu, Linux mint, popOS all Re derived from Debian while fedoro centos were all derived from RHEL bit f*cl Redhat and canonical. And msnjaro arach are all forks of arch and there are freebsd and susu which corpos like becausr of not licensing

    If you arrnew and using old hardware then choose Debian or a year alternatives if you're using bleeding edge hardware (newes than 1 year( then choose Fedora

    [–] 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.

    [–] 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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    [–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    My favourite part of the Linux installation process is when it automatically places itself before windows in the grub menu boot order

    Inb4 don’t dual boot: I occasionally need to for work 🫩

    [–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 108 points 1 day ago (16 children)

    Better than Windows just straight up overwriting your Linux boot partition on an update.

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