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On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:24:22 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> One of the barriers, is people cannot really imagine anything better.
> People just accepted in the 90s that computers were unstable and
> crashed.  It was just a given, but when my friends asked me about Linux,
> and I showed that I could burn a CD, listen to music and download a file
> and browse *at the same time*, they were impressed.  Computers didn't
> need to crash.

Ironically computers were more stable in the '80s. It took Windows to 
introduce the world to the BSOD.