Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
bobo@lemmy.world 1 week agoFair enough, but Linux was quite difficult for a normal user to install back in the 90’s. And you could literally destroy your monitor if you didn’t know what you were doing. I was responding to the notion that using FOSS was somehow easier to get into in the 90s than Microsoft products.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I don’t think you remember how difficult was to install anything back then.
I mean yeah, installing Linux was more complicated, and you couldn’t just google shit. Still, I was making pretty good money back then on the side specifically because regular user wasn’t able to do shit with their computer.
Linux was harder, both were difficult, both required separate set of skills you couldn’t just get.
bobo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You keep saying I don’t remember, which feels a bit dismissive. I do remember. We just have differing opinions on the barriers to entry for Microsoft vs. FOSS in the 90s.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Sorry, wasn’t my intention