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Lmao I did this exact thing. Installed Ubuntu on the home desktop. Immediately occurred to me that I couldn’t connnect to the internet to look up how to do anything else. Scrambled so hard to find that XP disc and atone for my reckless folly.
One of the things I like about Linux is the feeling of likely being eaten by a grue
Still have my physical Ubuntu Hardy Heron DVD somewhere
Damn that was my exact experience
My Linux journey was pre XP, I was still in 98Se edition and my Linux disk didn’t have a working GUI on it.
Me as a kid booting into Corel Linux that I got from a used bookstore.
This was knoppix for me!
I remember back then it was easier installing the OS than installing third party software 🫣
Both are hella easy now, flathub my beloved.
I love bricking my entire installation by trying to downgrade OpenVPN
CD? Hah! Luxury!
We 'ad to install off floppy disk! And the disks had bad sectors and the drive kept grinding them down! Then we ‘ad to build the kernel wi’ two bare hands! And the only window manager we 'ad would spontaneously delete itself and we’d 'ave to start all over at 2am, half an hour before we finished the last install!
It was a different time.
me after installing Ubuntu because it was the only other OS I’d ever heard of, because I accidentally nuked my Windows Vista install by trying to overclock the CPU in a Gateway laptop:
Similarly, my XP install just died and I didn’t have a copy of Windows to reinstall. Gnome 2 taught me computers don’t have to look or feel boring and the terminal taught me they weren’t scary.
Learned a lot that first year.
hehe, mine was Ubuntu too. I thought I’d fucked up the emachines tower my parents just bought me.
us emachines and gateway kids grew up to be lightweight distro enthusiasts
like now my laptop has 16 gigs RAM, quad core fuck even knows GHz processor, and a GPU but if a process starts using >2% of my resources i will
-killall -9it from orbit
thats me installing windows in the 90s, waiting for hours, not sure if it just froze
Knoppix was the shit back then.
I tried out knoppix. I probably used the shell in knoppix more than any other distro than Irix.
My first experience with Linux was trying to install TurboLinux 6 from a CD I got at a HAM Fest.
Short story shorter, I didn’t successfully use Linux the first time until I tried a different distro (probably Debian?) a few years later.
