Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
sudo in Windows.Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.
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
You don't download shell scripts from github for windows. You download batch scripts and exes from random file hosting sites, and they don't even fix your problem.
You'll be lucky if it's even hosted on random hosting sites and not some discord channel.
iTs iN tHe PiNnEd cOmMeNtS bRo
Oh how I hate Discord.
CMD is a shell, homes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)
tldr: batch is a scripting language, which interacts with the windows shell, so in that way it is a shell script.
sorry for being pedantic, hope this info is interesting for somebody anyway
Idk, installing Linux was pretty easy 10 years ago too. Can't comment about anything earlier than that though.
They are probably like me, thinking that the year 2000 was 10 years ago.
thinking that the year 2000 was 10 years ago.
This is patently absurd, 10 years ago was 1994.
There were installers like today even ~20 years ago.
Even 20 years ago Linux was easier to install then Windows.
Last time I recall Linux being tricky was like late 90s.
That was the case even 19 years back. Ubuntu nailed it back then. You could install it without knowing anything about your computer. Before that, there were text based UIs which required deep understanding and lots of decisions.
Linux is honestly great, literally the only things holding it back is programs supporting it. I'm painfully tied to a select few windows programs for work and hobbies, Wine tries its best but programs need to start supporting linux before proper adoption can kick off.
Lots more is holding it back, but I'd agree apps is a huge issue.
It's still has significant issues with being end-user friendly. Needing to use command line for some things that should be a right click, not supporting right click, ambiguities galore when looking at a package repository, odd defaults in packages that one really wouldn't expect to have to check (e.g. Selecting RDP connection in a Remote app, but it defaults the security to something other than RDP?)
As for apps, there's problems like Libre Office devs refusing to support tables in the spreadsheet app, saying data management should be done with a database tool. While they're not wrong, it takes a LOT more effort to setup a DB than to simply click "make table" in excel, which millions of people are familiar with. I create tables every day for run-of-the-mill stuff that simply doesn't need a database. No one has time for that.
Or you plug in the most prolific wireless mouse on the planet, that's been around since 2000 (Logitech), and it doesn't work. Now pick any random piece of hardware and this is the stuff you run into. You go down the rabbit hole of searching for a solution
Or CAD (which falls in your app argument).
Linux is great for many things (things I run, UnRAID, TrueNAS, Proxmox, etc), it's just not a great general purpose desktop for the average user, yet.
I understand the face value of it, but I really hate the argument of (basically) "Linux isnt going to take off until it just becomes Windows (or emulates it perfectly click for click)"
People always act like Linux is less buttery smooth two click accessible as a style choice, but cranking out a system like that and keeping it up costs money. If Linux dedicated to supporting every dongle on the planet themselves and all this other shiz, they'd have to monetize too.
So much less now needs the terminal. Personally, I don't get why people don't mind doing a search to find where windows hid some particular setting 3 submenus deep, but lose their fucking mind over the thought of doing a search to double check which command they need.
Linux doesn't need to change, people's priorities need to shift. This obsession with free services and not having to know shit about how shit works is how we got here, and shaking that is the only way out. For example, People will recognize that google is bad but if you point out you can get a domain and basic email hosting for $20/yr or whatever, its always "sucks teeth yeaaaaa but i dont have $20 for something like that and idk how stuff works" conveniently, you dont need to "yeaaaaa, but nooooooo"
Like, I hate cars, but I can't imagine not knowing how to change a tire or my oil, etc basic stuff, but there are people who call AAA when they get a flat. Its nuts to me.
I create tables every day for run-of-the-mill stuff that simply doesn't need a database. No one has time for that.
It seems that your issue isn't the lack of tables in sheets but no easy way to create a simple db.
If we want to break Microsoft's monopoly than we can't do that by reimplementing Microsoft's monopolistic ecosystem. And that creates the opportunity to correct questionable and arbitrary Microsoft decisions.
People are used to MS Office now but so were they used to typewriters a few decades ago. And if we're changing OSes we don't have to stick to one office suite.
And the reason those few programs don't support Linux is because they don't think we have enough users. So don't hold up on using linux for that reason, it's just a circle.
I have found that steam proton is a powerful wine machine. I'm not sure if it would help with any of the programs you are trying to run as it does have limits, but I've been shoving a ton of .exe files into steam and they usually work flawlessly.
i like using bottles or lutris for that, you can change wine versions and parameters easier in case something doesn't work.
I think the biggest shift in the last 20 years is troubleshooting in Linux and windows.
20 years ago and I had to troubleshoot issues and Linux. It genuinely required a good bit of computer knowledge to get it done. Sometimes hours of work to figure out how to get a webcam to work Or how to fix grub?
Windows back then used to be so easy. And there was usually something that would do a quick fix.
However, now and I run across a windows issue. It's a nightmare. I can put hours of work into trying to fix a driver issue or an issue with updates and get nowhere. Then go to reinstall the operating system and have to spend more hours just to get it installed.
Now in Linux, not only do I rarely have issues but also fixing those issues are pretty straightforward. And if I can't fix it a reinstall takes minutes and I'm back up and running in no time.
Windows tries to obfuscate any useful information while Linux tries to give logs and man entries to walk the user through what went wrong.
As a part-time sysadmin at my small company. We use Altium and Solidworks, so we need windows.
I have 10x more windows problems than Linux problems like a bug for around 5 or so people where a windows update would disable the microphone, but every single microphone menu and setting would say it is enabled and working properly. You HAD to use their troubleshooter (which they are now phasing out, wtf) in order for it to be auto fixed. So soon it will probably be replaced by something else that won't fix the issue.
0 information online about it, 501 different way to fix audio issues, none of which work.
Nowadays the only problems that I have with Linux are slight bugs or user errors, honestly.
When the BSOD code has nothing to do with your actual problem
Well OBVIOUSLY you need to set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session\Windows\Microsoft\Win10\MSWindows\CockNBalls\BSODWord to 0 then restart your computer.
This was one of the main reasons I made the switch.
when I was using win10/11 for whatever reason once or twice a year, always at least once a year, the wifi on my laptop would just working. just wouldn't connect to anything. sometimes doing a hardreset would work but usually it wouldn't. even uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers did nothing. Nope Windows would just randomly decide that this thing isn't worth it's salt and wouldn't acknowledge it's existance. the ONLY fix was to reinstall the OS. It's not like I was doing anything, just Windows deciding it didn't want to work.
Now on Linux everything just works. if I have issues it's because of my own doing and they're easy to work cause I know what I did wrong. worse comes to worse I got auto backups and just need to reinstall which takes all of like 5min. Or I can use it as an excuse to try another distro.
That's my biggest issue, I'm just so addicted to tweaking the thing now that it's a dangerous rabbit hole to go down cause I know i'll end up breaking something. It's fun though. Just constantly tweaking and adjusting to get it "just right".
I remember 2014 being pretty easy to install Linux. Windows 7 and 10 were also pretty easy then.
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?
If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would have traveled back to 1994.
2004 was twenty years ago :|
2004 is when we got Ubuntu, and if I recall correctly Mandrake was also rather easy to install.
Maybe Linux is 10 years ahead. Let's give our windows users some insight about their future:
Don't remove the French language pack with sudo!
Last week I installed Windows 11 on a new laptop that came with FreeDOS installed. It was a really dreadful experience, I never thought it was this bad.
The windows 11 installer couldn't find any hhd partitions or hard drive, while FreeDOS could. After googling for a while I had to download an Intel Rapid Something driver from the manufacturer's website and load it up when installing windows 11.
After installing Windows it required an internet connection to proceed but I assume the wi-fi drivers were not installed. USB tethering didn't seem to be working either so I had to continue the setup elsewhere, where I had physical access to the router.
I had to skip a lot of things throughout the installer, which kinda shocked me. Office 365 and even games, before I even booted the actual OS.
Fully updating Windows took 2 hours. Fresh ISO, gigabit Ethernet connection, nvme HDD. Damn.
Pretty miserable experience and completely impossible to an unexperienced user.
The windows 11 installer couldn’t find any hhd partitions or hard drive, while FreeDOS could. After googling for a while I had to download an Intel Rapid Something driver from the manufacturer’s website and load it up when installing windows 11.
SATA drivers flashbacks
My last windows 11 installation took over 7 hours divided over 3 or 4 days, I dont even remember, I'm trying to forget. It was an absolute horror show and indont get why anyone accepts this. If I want to pay and get fucked I'll find an escort, but I have Linux AND a wife.
Windows 9x was extremely time consuming to install with multiple reboots and before that it was all config files. Out of the box 95 couldn't play media, connect to the internet (thanks trumpet), even access a cd. Normies bought machines pre-installed and got help when the system shit itself. Before there were scripted alternatives large scale Windows deployments were all imaged because of the hours it took to set up a single machine swapping floppies and writing to spinning rust. You had to reboot numerous times and use third party drivers and apps for everything. I recently installed a disposable Win 10 to do a firmware upgrade and Microsoft have come a long way though having to disconnect the Internet to get a local login is very dark.
Before there were scripted alternatives large scale Windows deployments were all imaged because of the hours it took to set up a single machine swapping floppies and writing to spinning rust.
My first internship was patching a ton of Win 98 systems and it involved walking up and down rows of cubicles waiting for the next step of the installation to get done and hit a couple keys
I tried to help my brother, who is a computer scientist to install windows 11 on his new am5 motherboard build. Am5 was really new and even with our combined knowledge it took all day of fucking with it to find a way to get windows 11 to recognize the m2 ssd. We had to load it with an older driver from the manufactures website and we had to do some kind of shenanigans to get the installer to actually recognize the files. Iirc this was a gigabyte motherboard, a reputable brand.
This was when am5 was newer so it's kind of understandable I guess, but I also installed arch for troubleshooting purposes that day and it only took 30 minutes 🤷
It took me two hours from the moment I started popping my laptop case open to add a new SSD to first boot on Linux. And figuring out how to disable secure boot on Acer's fancy ass BIOS was what took most of the time.
Windows is only for games; macOS and Linux are for work. Once they catch up, it will be bye-bye Windows.
been playin games on linux for a long ass time now, with minimal issue.
with almost no issue in the past 3-4 years.
Its caught up.
Pretty much any game short of ones that have invasive kernal DRM run without much issue.
Games is mostly (say 90+95%) there. Windows won't go bye bye though, MS ensured customers by making government's and companies sign contracts that will be a bitch to get out of. Expect windows to be around for a long time.
Microsoft has shit developers, but they have great marketing people and lawyers, so many lawyers...
Windows was never that easy. You forgot, waiting for a hour and retrying steps
Back in 1997 I was like "Ooh, Debian is mildly easy to install (compared to Slackware). Just need to engage my brain a few times maybe."
(The first Slackware guide I read in 1996 had an ominous warning about getting the ModeLines right in XFree86 or the monitor will catch fire. This, fortunately, was a little bit of exaggeration. Over/under refresh frequency protection was already a thing.)
Now? "Oh no I fucked up my password shit and can't login. I'll need 5 more minutes to completely reinstall this Raspberry Pi image. I should have engaged my brain!"
Shit, we've gotten to the point that your average desk jockey can probably install freaking FreeBSD on the first try. If that's not a good sign I don't know what is.
2012's debian (I think it was 6, which was my first one) was pretty straight forward to install even for a newbie