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minus-squareRhabuko@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up50arrow-down1·1 year agoWhat’s the problem here? That’s how I started with Linux.
minus-squareSneaky Bastard@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down2·1 year agoIdk seems like gatekeeping to me. Why don’t they wipe their disk and install Arch like real sigma linux users?
minus-squarePyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWhy stop there? Can you even call yourself computer literate if you can’t manually flip the bits in your RAM to perform basic tasks?
minus-squareMyFairJulia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoPotentially relevant xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/378/
minus-squareasudox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoThen get traumatized after having to wipe the entire system again because some package rendered the bootloader system completely useless.
minus-squarecyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoI 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 😂
minus-squareloutr@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoWhat’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.
minus-squareCaptain Howdy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTechnically 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.
minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoMy system can barely handle windows 7. A linux VM on top of that? Fuck no So installed mint
What’s the problem here? That’s how I started with Linux.
Idk seems like gatekeeping to me. Why don’t they wipe their disk and install Arch like real sigma linux users?
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?
Potentially relevant xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/378/
Then get traumatized after having to wipe the entire system again because some package rendered the bootloader system completely useless.
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 😂
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.
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.
My system can barely handle windows 7. A linux VM on top of that? Fuck no
So installed mint