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

  • [object Object]@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 小时前

    Back in the day Slackware prided themselves on the fact that a woodpecker mashing ‘enter’ would be able to install the distro.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 小时前

      I remember it was painless, except for some drivers.

      But I also remember having to choose how to set up the partition table, including what format it would be in. I didn’t know the difference between any of them, just that ext3 and reiserfs were “good”. So I flipped a coin.