Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”

  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been using Linux since you created a boot floppy by using dd on the kernel

    Wait, is that not how you do it anymore? I swear, I just went through trialing a few more distros, and I dded like crazy.

    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
      9·
      2 days ago

      You might have been using dd to burn an ISO image onto a USB stick or some such, but sincerely doubt that you were writing just the kernel to the first sector of a 3.5" floppy disk and then booting off of it, while it found your ISA hard drive.