This image was created by /u/kuebic@discuss.tchncs.de for this comment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21735989. I had encouraged them to post it somewhere, but as far as I can tell, they never did.

Panel 1: “Installing Windows 20 years ago” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: “Installing Linux 20 years ago” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: “Installing Windows today” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: “Installing Linux today” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    232·
    20 hours ago

    Uhhh. No.

    Is this like the time that travel journalist was in Hungary, saw 1 cow, that happened to be white, then wrote “all the cows in Hungary are white”?

    Over 20 years ago, I installed linux with a gui (suse, as easy as ubuntu to install, before ubuntu), and still could. At the same time, could also install Gentoo, and still do. Free to choose how to install linux, any of many ways, gui or not, then as now.

    … Was this made by a windows user, and windows only gives you one way, and they thought that’s what it was like with Free Software too?

    • bossjack@lemmy.world
      92·
      18 hours ago

      Think you’re taking this too seriously.

      To the average Joe, yeah, Windows is easier to install than ever. But to anyone with a passing interest in the OS has needed to do more and more work just to keep the OS recognizably sane vs the mess it has become.

      Contrast that to Linux, which has stayed recognizably sane or even getting better.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      Hell, I looked at installing Slackware again a few months back. I think I’ve said enough.

      Coincidentally, I actually did install Slackware as one of my first distros some 20 years ago. I actually had one of those old Linux for Dummies books, which made the experience close to painless.

      Sadly, the call of PC gaming pulled me back to windows for a while. But with Steam, and more specifically Proton, now those calls are coming from inside the house.

      • Bluewing@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Put some respect on the sackcloth and ashes that Slack is. I did my Slack phase 20 years ago also. Soooo many config files…But if you understood those, Slack was near bulletproof.

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        With respins, there are probably at least a few ways to install Slackware with a gui rather than its blue tui. ~ Heck, even a variety of ways to install Slackware itself (~ do they have a gui method too? ~ It’s been a few years since I explored Slackware.)

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Slackware has a gui, but it’s not a simple “click here to install” type. It has you creating your own partition table, with all the options.