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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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    [–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week 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 114 points 1 week ago (13 children)

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

    [–] user224 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Just boot partition?

    I once installed Linux Mint by shrinking Windows 10 partition in Linux against the recommendations. On first Windows boot it seemed fine, except that C: was still showing the old size.
    On next Windows reboot it got annihilated with "Repairing drive C:".

    [–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I wouldn’t blame Windows for this one. In this case, this is likely because the Windows partition table wasn’t updated when you changed your C: partition, so Windows legitimately thought there was filesystem corruption because the size didn’t match its partition table.

    You should always used the currently installed OS to free up space first, so it’s aware of the change. Then run the installer and install to the free space you made.

    Or better yet, use separate physical drives for different OSes.

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    [–] Enzy@feddit.nu 14 points 1 week ago

    Linux: Signature look of superiority

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    [–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Caldera had a GUI installer in 1998…

    Caldera OpenLinux Installer

    [–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

    I never used Caldera, but holy hell the font and design of this installer brings back so many memories.

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    [–] pedz@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Ugh. That reminds me of the Microsoft admin fanboys where I worked, dissing Linux because its all command lines, while saying that MS inventing PowerShell was a stroke of genius making their lives easier.

    [–] foggy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I had a coworker, about 30 years old... Who taught computer science at a college prior to us working together... Who said to me "Command line? That stuffs ancient, man."

    Just in case you were thinking about spending money on college tuition to learn computer science...

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    [–] criticon@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week 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

    [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

    Yeah in 2005 every major distro had a decent clean gui installer. I recall at the time using fedora. Then Ubuntu a few years later.

    But god help you if you needed wifi drivers.

    Even in the 90s Redhat had a decent installer.

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    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    windows xp WAS NOT 20 years ago

    [–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    October 25, 2001

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

    [–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Don't schedule a colonoscopy unless you have symptoms of a GI disorder, or unexplained weight loss. The evidence does not support non-targeted screening programs.

    [–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Terrible advice. Screening prolongs lives much more than you think. Got a history of family polyps? Which a lot do, get screened. Those will turn cancerous. Wife is an RN at a GI clinic. They see it day in and out.

    But no, go ahead and just bury your head in the sand so you don’t have to go through 1 night of shitting your brains out to find out they removed the polyp(s) that would have turned into cancer in 5 years and resulted in only having to remove some intestine, if you’re lucky. Just 1 example of why it’s important to do it. And, if you react well to anesthesia, propofol is one hell of a great nap.

    What are the risks to be screened? Super freaking low.

    [–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Yes, family history is something I neglected to mention and is true. More generally though, the risks of anaesthesia are underestimated.

    I've also worked as nurse in an endoscopy clinic. Different healthcare systems have different attitudes to evidence.

    [–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    What should be my default "Remember that you're getting old!" helpful tip now, then?

    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Check your linkin park cds for disc rot.

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    [–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 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.

    [–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

    Exactly. Most people have no idea that is even a thing.

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    [–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    Tbh, Installing Gentoo today is basically the same as it was in the first screenshot anyway :D But then again, most people would object to conflating the Gentoo installation to the "Linux installation"

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    [–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week 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 23 points 1 week ago (7 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?

    [–] bossjack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Think you're taking this too seriously.

    To the average Joe, yeah, Windows is easier to install than ever. But to anyone with a passing interest in the OS has needed to do more and more work just to keep the OS recognizably sane vs the mess it has become.

    Contrast that to Linux, which has stayed recognizably sane or even getting better.

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    [–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    You also had to spend hours tweaking your install in any Linux distro. Now most work out of the box.

    Windows on the other hand...

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    [–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (35 children)

    My favorite conspiracy of the moment is that Microsoft intentionally does this New Coke thing and then they will roll out actually good Windows and make all of DA MONY AND KEEL DA LEENOOCKS DIZIZZ. But it's Microsoft, so the long game will go on forever and there will be no pay off. Also - Mint is soooo gooooood to use compared to Win11

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    [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Don't forget to remove the french language pack

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    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (14 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.

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    [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    not very accurate, you can still install Windows graphically, and you could install Linux either on a console or with a GUI both in 2005 and now

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    [–] regdog@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    This meme would be better if it were:

    left column: 20 years ago
    right column: today

    [–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    Both work because the reversal is part of the point. I didn’t find it difficult to read, so it’s subjectively legible.

    [–] lauha@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    I installed my first linux using graphical installer over 25 years ago

    [–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Linux mint is my distro for now and a good while! I cannot complain (except for a few very minor things).

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    [–] ragas@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

    Urgh, we downgraded from Gentoo to Ubuntu.

    [–] halvar@lemy.lol 9 points 1 week ago

    I was scared because i thought there was a windows 20

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