Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

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62 points

I remember 2014 being pretty easy to install Linux. Windows 7 and 10 were also pretty easy then.

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78 points

Haha, you’re so silly! The meme says 10 years ago and not— …

My god, it really has been ten years since 2014, hasn’t it?

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34 points

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would have traveled back to 1994.

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19 points

Wow that… Stings a little

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19 points

2004 was twenty years ago :|

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17 points

2004 is when we got Ubuntu, and if I recall correctly Mandrake was also rather easy to install.

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7 points

I remember breaking my Ubuntu install a bunch of times when trying to install nvidia drivers and flash player to watch YouTube.

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I was breaking redhat and fedora trying to install wifi drivers for pcmcia wifi cards. So much modprobe. That’s why I switched to Ubuntu.

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