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
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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
Better than Windows just straight up overwriting your Linux boot partition on an update.
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:".
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.
Linux: Signature look of superiority
SUsE Linux had a nice GUI installer in 2005.
Caldera had a GUI installer in 1998…

I never used Caldera, but holy hell the font and design of this installer brings back so many memories.
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.
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...
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
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.
windows xp WAS NOT 20 years ago
24 years ago! Don't forget to schedule your colonoscopy.
October 25, 2001
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.
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.
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.
What should be my default "Remember that you're getting old!" helpful tip now, then?
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.
Exactly. Most people have no idea that is even a thing.
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"
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.
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?
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.
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...
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
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.
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
This meme would be better if it were:
left column: 20 years ago
right column: today
Both work because the reversal is part of the point. I didn’t find it difficult to read, so it’s subjectively legible.
I installed my first linux using graphical installer over 25 years ago
Linux mint is my distro for now and a good while! I cannot complain (except for a few very minor things).
Urgh, we downgraded from Gentoo to Ubuntu.
I was scared because i thought there was a windows 20