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    [–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 139 points 4 months ago (33 children)

    Idk, installing Linux was pretty easy 10 years ago too. Can't comment about anything earlier than that though.

    [–] RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Even 20 years ago Linux was easier to install then Windows.

    Last time I recall Linux being tricky was like late 90s.

    [–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, all my Linux installs after about 2003 were liveCDs. I used to carry my Gentoo CD around as my diagnostic tools for a while helping people fix their windows machines (or just backing up everything off it before reformatting).

    I think Knoppix was the first live CD I used. It was mind blowing. Now you can just carry around a whole personally configured system on a USB stick. Pretty cool.

    [–] MalReynolds 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
    [–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I was going to say "but ventoy only mounts the filesystem as readonly. Great for testing new distros, but not great for rolling installs you carry with you to use on different computers"

    Then I quickly found https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html, so TIL!

    [–] MalReynolds 1 points 4 months ago
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