Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 days ago
That might be a win-win situation, actually. Imagine they all come to Linux and here the great battle will begin – between crazy vimers who remember crazy commands and newcomer crazy Win-admins who keep a bunch of register(reestr? What was its name? Win system config with stupid key names like “ADDA-4534-FA45-4532” ) keys in their EULA-heads.
I hope both sides will lose :)
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world 3 days ago
Windows has sucked for a while, and watching them keep making mistakes like this is fun to watch.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 days ago
20 years ago internet was the main pro-Windows argument, actually. Windows was completely comfortable without the internet, while Linux was barely usable offline without access to online repositories and forums to keep the system working.
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world 3 days ago
I remember when Linux was a bear to install. While the pro-Linux people were kinda assholes and not cool with helping complete noobs. Things have changed.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 days ago
They have? I don’t know – I’m still an ashhole.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online 3 days ago
now now, 20 years ago was 2005. cable internet, xDSL and some fiber were around and semi common. distrowatch.com was just starting but plenty of distros had complete ISOs with full environments. source forge, freshmeat and ibiblio were all big on hosting ISOs.
now in 1996/97 redhat 5.x series had the anaconda installer that installed all components without touching anything Internet related (though it could)
94 had slackwares release and it was as you say
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 days ago
So? Yes, we had CDs with packages.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
I had a winmodem at the time, which of course wasn’t supported. 😓
paper_moon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had one up until about 2003 probably. We were out in the country and couldn’t get cable or dsl. I remember trying out linux and fighting with the wintel modem and gpu drivers, writing down the errors, rebooting the machine back into windows, going online and researching the errors online, writing down the commands I needed to use to fix it, or downloading the rpm packages (fedora) I might have needed, rebooting, trying again in linux, failing, etc.
When i finally trees ubuntu on my laptop around 2007, it was amazing that the WiFi and graphics “just worked”.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 3 days ago
The only not fun about it is that people are putting up with it instead of doing something about it and finally leaving.