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Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

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[-] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

It hasn’t change since mid-2000s if you only talk about the installation process itself. Usually you would have at least some piece of hardware that wouldn’t work out of box and it used to be a lot of work until getting everything in place

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

NDISWrapper used to be the worst.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Nvidia was also more painful than now.

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Nvidia has become pretty painless in the last few years. A year ago a guy told me to try wayland so I did and surprisingly I've been on wayland ever since on my desktop. The last time I don't think I was even able to see my desktop. Now the 555 drivers made things even better.

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