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[-] Rhabuko@feddit.de 109 points 1 year ago

What's the problem here? That's how I started with Linux.

[-] sneaky_b45tard@feddit.de 65 points 1 year ago

Idk seems like gatekeeping to me. Why don't they wipe their disk and install Arch like real sigma linux users?

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then get traumatized after having to wipe the entire system again because some package rendered the bootloader or the system completely useless.

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Why stop there? Can you even call yourself computer literate if you can't manually flip the bits in your RAM to perform basic tasks?

[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Potentially relevant xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/378/

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I don't even think VMs were a thing when I started. I remember dual booting back to Windows to google shit to fix drivers then then back ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's this "Google" thing you speak of? Back in my days you bought a huge book which came with a red hat or mandrake CD-ROM.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Technically VMs are older than Windows, but it was not super accessible in the 90s and early 00s which is when I'm guessing you were doing this.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

My system can barely handle windows 7. A linux VM on top of that? Fuck no

So installed mint

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