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Comment on a YT video about Windows on ARM (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, all my Linux installs after about 2003 were liveCDs. I used to carry my Gentoo CD around as my diagnostic tools for a while helping people fix their windows machines (or just backing up everything off it before reformatting).

I think Knoppix was the first live CD I used. It was mind blowing. Now you can just carry around a whole personally configured system on a USB stick. Pretty cool.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    And then you find ventoy...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was going to say "but ventoy only mounts the filesystem as readonly. Great for testing new distros, but not great for rolling installs you carry with you to use on different computers"

    Then I quickly found https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html, so TIL!

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