Damn that was my exact experience
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Exactly what happened when I tried ubuntu on my brothers pc back then. Couldn't even get the internet working. Right now I'm impressed its an easier time to install than windows.
Meanwhile I'm sitting here having grown up on among other things (like a TI-99A) with access to a Macintosh 128k, an Apple ]|[, a Commodore 64, and various 286, 386, and Pentium machines, as well as some SGI machines by the time I was 8 years old, so it would seem that I would have embraced Linux. It just never happened because consoles, and later windows dominated gaming so much that despite the fact that I have tried Linux out maybe 20 times at this point, it's only recently that I can seriously consider switching off of windows and consoles.
thats me installing windows in the 90s, waiting for hours, not sure if it just froze
Still have my physical Ubuntu Hardy Heron DVD somewhere
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.
Yes, with Mandriva. I had just switched from 98 to Xp and was like βNo, no, no, this sucks!β.
Mandriva looked so nice in comparison. But no internet, it just wouldnβt connect and I didnβt know how to troubleshoot it.
Honestly there are probably very few people who can troubleshoot dial up on Linux.
One of the things I like about Linux is the feeling of likely being eaten by a grue
It was a different time.
Windows wouldnβt boot so I burnt an Ubuntu live image to a cd and used that to copy my files off my windows partition
My Linux journey was pre XP, I was still in 98Se edition and my Linux disk didn't have a working GUI on it.
That amazing experience of having to print out instructions at a friends house to recover a dual-boot system after either grub fucked up or windows XP fucked up. Good times.
Only had dialup when hedgehog was released and could not for the life of me figure out how to enable PPP
this is not Something I experienced as I switch in 2021 (with a failed attempt in 2018)
can someone approve or deny of this
Linux in the modern day is a much comfier experience for an uninitiated user. But the real nightmare is using Linux WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION (it STILL super sucks nowadays), which depending on how you were connecting your old machine to the internet, the only solution was "... Buy a different network card/Switch ISPs entirely"
Linux has gotten a lot better about just. Supporting hardware in general. And once you GET a Linux distro (any) on the internet, your life gets much easier.
I love bricking my entire installation by trying to downgrade OpenVPN
Me as a kid booting into Corel Linux that I got from a used bookstore.