Exactly what happened when I tried ubuntu on my brothers pc back then. Couldn't even get the internet working. Right now I'm impressed its an easier time to install than windows.
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One of the things I like about Linux is the feeling of likely being eaten by a grue
My first Linux distro was Puppy Linux, on a computer with no internet. I downloaded it on an internet cafe to replace Windows XP Fenix Edition.
My PC was too weak to run any flavor of the major distros, and I wanted to give it a go.
Best computer-related decision of my life to ditch Windows and use Linux as my daily driver.
SUSE on 6 CDs
Meanwhile I'm sitting here having grown up on among other things (like a TI-99A) with access to a Macintosh 128k, an Apple ]|[, a Commodore 64, and various 286, 386, and Pentium machines, as well as some SGI machines by the time I was 8 years old, so it would seem that I would have embraced Linux. It just never happened because consoles, and later windows dominated gaming so much that despite the fact that I have tried Linux out maybe 20 times at this point, it's only recently that I can seriously consider switching off of windows and consoles.
I used xp for 15 years and i miss it. Fuck this ribbon nonsense too. Where is the desktop cloud? My precious is lost... i'm lost...i have no fucking idea where that file i just saved went.. i built a pc in 2002 and progranned a vcr as well. Now i'm toast.
It was a different time.
Only had dialup when hedgehog was released and could not for the life of me figure out how to enable PPP
I remember back then it was easier installing the OS than installing third party software π«£
Both are hella easy now, flathub my beloved.
Still have my physical Ubuntu Hardy Heron DVD somewhere
Lmao I did this exact thing. Installed Ubuntu on the home desktop. Immediately occurred to me that I couldn't connnect to the internet to look up how to do anything else. Scrambled so hard to find that XP disc and atone for my reckless folly.
this is not Something I experienced as I switch in 2021 (with a failed attempt in 2018)
can someone approve or deny of this
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That amazing experience of having to print out instructions at a friends house to recover a dual-boot system after either grub fucked up or windows XP fucked up. Good times.
Windows wouldnβt boot so I burnt an Ubuntu live image to a cd and used that to copy my files off my windows partition
thats me installing windows in the 90s, waiting for hours, not sure if it just froze
Me as a kid booting into Corel Linux that I got from a used bookstore.
I love bricking my entire installation by trying to downgrade OpenVPN
My Linux journey was pre XP, I was still in 98Se edition and my Linux disk didn't have a working GUI on it.