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Installing Linux Like It's 1999(makertube.net)

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What has your experience with Linux been like so far? How long has been your Linux journey? Mine began while I was studying computer science, and I’ve been in love with Linux since.

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umbrella@lemmy.ml
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me too. it had some unspecified issue with xorg that prevented bootup and i was never able to fix.

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Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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Internet access was more complicated back then. If you didn’t have a second computer or couldn’t dual boot into a working OS it was a big problem. And there wasn’t a lot of Linux users back then either.

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yea no way i would have been willing or even able to troubleshoot it at that time.

i just gave up until ubuntu came around many years later and just worked.

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