This image was created by /u/kuebic@discuss.tchncs.de 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

  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 days ago

    You also had to spend hours tweaking your install in any Linux distro. Now most work out of the box.

    Windows on the other hand…

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      5·
      2 days ago

      But once you got that XFree86 config dialed in, life was awesome.

      (Ok looks like Xorg has been around for 21 years, so maybe you were running it instead.)

      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Also not Linux dependent, I’m sure windows users spend hours tweaking their installs to how they want it.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Not as much as we have to now.

          I’m usually a Windows shield-bearer around these parts, because it’s not quite as much of a dumpster fire as people say (please for the love of god don’t debate me on this, I prefer Linux and have better things to do), but this is inarguably something Windows has gotten far far worse at. Out of the box experience (besides having to shove drivers into the install media) used to be a pretty definitive thing that Windows beat Linux on. Install and it “just werkd”. It used to be the cornerstone of pushback, that Linux required you to tinker and Windows didn’t. But Microsoft destroyed their lead in that so they only have (fast dwindling) business appeal and entrenchment to lean on now.

          • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            not quite as much of a dumpster fire as people say

            Yeah. It’s not the dumpster on fire. This is fine.

            Out of the box experience (besides having to shove drivers into the install media) used to be a pretty definitive thing that Windows beat Linux on. Install and it “just werkd”. It used to be the cornerstone of pushback, that Linux required you to tinker and Windows didn’t.

            When I switched to Linux in late 2003, with SuSe, iirc everything just worked, out of the box, and I ran it vanilla for a couple years. Didn’t even need to install an image manipulation program, or an office suite, or a second web browser, or many other things, because it all came already installed. When did windows ever have a sound argument for “the cornerstone of pushback” claiming to be superior for “just werkd”? The early 90s? I doubt even then. Seems from my experience like it was more likely always advertising FUD.