this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
152 points (97.5% liked)
Linux
8909 readers
373 users here now
A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)
Also, check out:
Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yeah, that's why I pointed out this used to be presented as a placeholder for testing the hardware before installing a non-OEM Windows while when it's done now it's more of a "this device is meant to run Linux" thing.
It was more frequent but not exactly the same dynamic.
And yeah, this was twenty years ago. I'm dead and buried.