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[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Anybody who used “classic Mac OS” (before OS X) can tell you that it was even more cryptic and hid more from the user than Windows did. It didn’t usually break, but when it did, you just reformat and re-install.

Sounds like my baby steps when I first started using Ubuntu and would spam sudo. Tho I had some cultural baggage from Windows about having to be an admin to do anything.

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