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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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[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

People forgot already...

EVERY SECOND WINDOWS IS GOOD Win XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad, 12 good?

Only this time around Linux got to the point where everyday users can switch and only run into debiliating problems twice a year, so MS is losing customers.

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago

The fuck? XP was awful. I left because of it. What are you on about?

[-] Cabbage_Pout61@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe you had a specific experience with It, but XP was and is considered universally a good windows version, compared to its predecessors and the posterior Vista. Only losing to windows 7 when it launched.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 0 points 2 weeks ago

So if you're correct with that, that NewNewAugustEast and I find it intolerably bad means we must exist outside the universe?

Is this what happens... to the perception of those who remained with windows, those who escaped to FOSS, apparently just ceased to exist?

[-] Cabbage_Pout61@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing of the sort, just said it based on the general usage, for all the flaws it had, It was, undeniably a very popular and used piece of software.

At the time of its peak, it was not universally bashed against like Windows ME, 8 or Vista. It was well received like windows 95, 7 and10

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 0 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, sorry. I must have had a dyslexic moment and misread:

considered universally

as

"universally considered"

[-] Cabbage_Pout61@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Np, have a good one

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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes windows can be installed easily, but it'll require a Microsoft login to do it- this meme is made for people who don't want that.

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not installing win 11 anyways, but if I did, there's no way in hell I wouldn't install it without spending half a day fucking with regedit and powershell.

[-] arc99@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I think Linux has progressed a lot since 2005. It's mostly idiot proof these days - it asks about language/keyboard/timezone/wifi and unless you ask for an advanced install (to partition a hard drive or whatever) it just installs.

I don't think installing Windows is any harder but it may stop to ask for a registration key. Windows also prefers to connect to wifi during installation to fetch patches whereas Linux tends to do it after the fact.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 weeks ago

Seemed idiot proof already a couple years before 2005 in my experience. I hear for years prior already too. Rumours of Linux's difficulty have been grossly exaggerated, like in the OP image.

... And reading the EULA for Windows may be non-idiot preventative. But who ever reads what that says. ... I did, when I had read the GNU GPL. The difference... it's worth the read... to experience that vivid constrast awareness, with one offering freedom, the other with it's deal with the devil clause, that they can change the agreement after they make it, and do all manner of nasty to you. GPL's easier to read only a few thousand words, compared to the proprietary license etc that are probably something like thousands of pages in their entirety. The BSD licenses are an even easier read. The WTFPL even shorter yet. Freedom's brevity not trying to hide something nasty in either the license nor the software... unlike the scary stuff one can find hidden in proprietary software. ~ Anyhoo, I'll stop rambling on your comment. It just sprang to mind.

[-] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Real

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Printers are a pain in the ass. But who still uses printers?

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget to remove the french language pack

[-] oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Pourquoi? C'est très utile!

[-] Minizarbi@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No :<

[-] axx@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Non !

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