This image was created by /u/[email protected] for this comment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21735989. I had encouraged them to post it somewhere, but as far as I can tell, they never did.

Panel 1: “Installing Windows 20 years ago” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: “Installing Linux 20 years ago” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: “Installing Windows today” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: “Installing Linux today” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons

    • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      12 hours ago

      You say so yet 10 is fast, convienient and easy to use. Wouldn’t call it better than 7, but it was good.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Nah, 10 is the primordial ooze from which all the current vile evil coming out of microsoft was formed.

        7 was faster, more convenient, less in your way, and just overall a superior product. No microsoft OS has even equaled what 7 was, much less be superior to it.

        • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Straight up said I wouldn’t call 10 better than 7. So what’s your point? 10 is, overall, good OS. Not best, not great, good.

          • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            45 minutes ago

            Straight up said I wouldn’t call 10 better than 7. So what’s your point?

            10 is the primordial ooze from which all the current vile evil coming out of microsoft was formed.

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        fast, convenient and easy to use

        I wonder how it feels compared to AntiX Linux.

        [Or VoidLinux with any Window Manager. ~ for different strokes a little further into the FOSS adventure.]

        • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I feel like the very moment we go for any linux aimed at being lightweight, windows loses due to cramming cramming as much compatibility and tools as is possible inside.

          …

          …and also you got me intrested in AntiX. I have old laptop that struggles even with Debian…wonder if that would work on it.

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Even 2000, it was the roller coaster starting its decent, worsening after NT. Barely indistinguishable, but there were clues, the trajectory had started to tip down.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          I think it was Windows 2000 I had to install on a laptop for someone…

          This was 20+ years ago, so I dont remember the details…but i think there was like 11-13 floppies for the install that I had at the time? All of them OEM floppies… I think from microsoft, but maybe from the laptop OEM?.. and every time I ran the installer another disk would fail, and i’d have to go online and find that disk image and burn it to a replacement floppy. It was the worst OS install experience of my entire life, lol. I think by the time I was done I had replaced all but the first oem disk.