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Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever (www.theverge.com)
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Fair enough, but Linux was quite difficult for a normal user to install back in the 90's. And you could literally destroy your monitor if you didn't know what you were doing. I was responding to the notion that using FOSS was somehow easier to get into in the 90s than Microsoft products.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't think you remember how difficult was to install anything back then.
    I mean yeah, installing Linux was more complicated, and you couldn't just google shit. Still, I was making pretty good money back then on the side specifically because regular user wasn't able to do shit with their computer.
    Linux was harder, both were difficult, both required separate set of skills you couldn't just get.

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