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I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it's been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.

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[–] dandu3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nowadays you can't even boot Ubuntu from disc. The loader is completely bugged out and you need to specify a few boot args to get it to boot within a semi reasonable amount of time. Last time I did, it took 20 minutes to load lol.

[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You'd have to use a DVD as well, since it's too big to fit on CDs now XP

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think the minimal/net-installer can still fit on a CD. But then you need an internet connection.

[–] dandu3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Of course. Especially since they now include Nvidia drivers which are like 300 MB each and there's more than one IIRC