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    Are you hardened Linux user? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 10 hours ago by Waffelson to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] linearchaos 13 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    PShaw, that's how I had to do it. Slackware on floppy. Pre-internet search engine, one computer per household. No cellular data.

    windows -> Dial up -> look at some docs, take nodes -> reboot into Slackware -> mess with the console -> get stuck -> reboot into windows -> repeat

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    You use a console? Noob.... Magnetised needle is where the real productivity is at.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    Back in my day we knit those bits into place. That's where the really cool projects are.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

    That's why I went with Red hat back then. They were sort of the gold standard and everything kinda just worked. Not as well as "it just works" Linux nowadays, but it used to be pretty good and easier to use, relatively speaking, compared to the other distros of the time.

    Dependency hell still sucked.