• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    To be fair, some of these responses are clearly going back 20+ years and only have 8 total “hops”. In that time a typical windows user would have gone through 7-10 different versions of windows depending on how lucky they got with stuff like ME and 8…

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      That seems like a very plausible explanation! I tried mint 16 and didn’t do the jump because it was not up to it just yet. Being a linux nerd 10-20 years ago and the differences were probably huge between distros, and they changed all the time too.

      Smart thinking!