I had a coworker, about 30 years old... Who taught computer science at a college prior to us working together... Who said to me "Command line? That stuffs ancient, man."

Just in case you were thinking about spending money on college tuition to learn computer science...

Better than Windows just straight up overwriting your Linux boot partition on an update.

Linux: Signature look of superiority

That's only because L comes before W alphabetically tho.

Dual booting is perfectly fine. Just try to not use the windows boot partition for both OS or Windows will occasionally "lose" the Linux entry... "Oops" I guess.

If Linux is on its own drive, or at least has it's own uefi partition, it's just fine and dandy. Just chain load windows from it and there's basically nothing that can break.

If you work for yourself I get it. If you work for someone else, get them to have a desktop for you there and remote in.

I put windows in a docker on my server, and keep an instance on Azure that only comes alive when I need it. I remote into either one if I have to. No more dual boot.

Just giving you some options. Also it lets me travel while knowing if I need windows even on the road I have one.

Yeah in 2005 every major distro had a decent clean gui installer. I recall at the time using fedora. Then Ubuntu a few years later.

But god help you if you needed wifi drivers.

Even in the 90s Redhat had a decent installer.

Well that screenshot was accurate for Gentoo circa 2005, it's just the worst choice for ease of install, with Linux graphical installs provided by suse, mandrake, and redhat from the 90s.

Fair point could be made that the out of box experience was sorely lacking and you pretty much had to configure;make install most software you actually wanted...

I guess you're right in the sense that neither could play audio off drivers packaged with install media in that era.

I remember reformatting a Windows computer to get a fresh install and I had to find the driver CD and install a driver for audio, internet and other very basic stuff.

to be fair if it had an update button, that should have been enough for it. you don't need to run commands because this is the Linux Way, but because better solutions are not there yet

Not exactly. The GUI variant of the updater that you tried also didn't work well.

CLI mostly works ok (unless a bug causes your DE to be uninstalled if you try to install steam), but GUI is very hit-and-miss.

Just the other day I had a bug in XFCE where I want to scale up the contents of the screen. So I use the GUI display config tool, set the scale to 0.5 (because for some reason they scale the wrong way round, <1 enlarges, >2 makes things smaller). It does work, the display gets scaled up.

After I'm done I want to scale back down and the GUI display config tool just locks up on startup and only shows a blank window with a few blank dropdowns.

A bit of googleing later I found the config file where I can change it back and once I changed the scaling to 1 again, the GUI tool worked again.

I've been using Linux exclusively for many years now, but without google I couldn't have fixed that.

People forgot already...

EVERY SECOND WINDOWS IS GOOD Win XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad, 12 good?

Only this time around Linux got to the point where everyday users can switch and only run into debiliating problems twice a year, so MS is losing customers.

Is there any coke alternative that's almost as good and in some regard better, but for free?

But once you got that XFree86 config dialed in, life was awesome.

(Ok looks like Xorg has been around for 21 years, so maybe you were running it instead.)

"had to"?

got to.

But they don't work the way I like so I still have to spend hours tweaking them.

No :<

For real!

Installing windows for most of that time hasn't been a thing people do

I remember reinstalling win95 almost daily because how it could break with just a power loss(which happened regularly to me then).

But then I remembered 20 years ago is when winxp was already 4 years old.

Exactly. Most people have no idea that is even a thing.