Debian was always like this.

he really needs a hug

ah okay, thanks, I missed this one.

Are these only “just” pulled from the online catalog, or the browser itself blocks installation too from file?

If the prior, I don’t really like this action, but my browser won’t change because of it (for now?) and also Mozilla and Firefox served me well in the past almost 20 years since I use it, I trust these guys.

If the latter… that could be a different story.

Many years ago I tried it, but didn’t really read up on it. Wanted to back up my Pi’s sdcard while the system was running. I even fucking named that script “online-backup”.

Now every time I ran that, after hours, I noticed my Pi was crashing, and never booted back up. I used chinese sd cards so I blamed it on them.

But this happened multiple times, just to learn I was using dd absolutely wrong.

dd was always a scary utility to me, and still is. I fucked up things with dd, regardless I quadruple checked everything 😅

but to answer the question; it’s possible, but you really need to know what are you doing.

You can always check its consistency if you run a mount -a after editing fstab. But yeah, an error in the file can cause some annoyance-

And Bonzi even was a 3rd party thing. Now imagine that shit, just built into the system by that time. 😅

Heck, even MSN Browser was a thing and I’m pretty sure just because it said “Good afternoon” or some shit when you launched it.

Since at that time these shits weren’t really normalized, I can imagine some people would actually like these things and maybe even use them. It would have feel… kinda modern? If that makes sense… (tho when I first saw XP after using 95 and 98 in my life at that point, it felt absolutely super-duper modern x3)

I like this image - it is really nicely done. I don’t like what it represents, but the image itself is decent.

I often use magenta, pink, cyan and purple, too

I haven’t considered Microsoft Plus! as a separate software for some reason, but fair point.

my memories are kinda foggy, but using Plus! in 98, some themes (like the space one) did change the dialog images, too, didn’t they? (so the info bubble, red circle X, yellow triangle exclamation mark etc)

don’t get me wrong, by no means this isn’t shitty, it is.

I’m just saying Windows too always had its tinkering with the registry or in text files, you just normally did that on the GUI or used EDIT.

Struggling with INI and SYS files are also kinda the same, but you are right, it was a far stretch

I do the same on Android

I mean, fucking with the registry was always a thing in windows

NVU, Dreamweaver were tried to be like this. Only thing that wysiwyg’ing HTML isn’t that easy as one might think, especially nowadays where thousands of web css frameworks exists and every structuring is done via divs.

You could make your own framework, or select/import one you like, but then the app will have way too much parameter, which needs to be configured by the user. It would be a really neat power tool, though.

ps.: Funny thing I was just thinking about wysiwyg editors in the recent days 😅

I used mostly Windows systems primarily and I guess I just adapted that habit of having an Administrator account for when shit goes down, and my own user account that has admin rights.

It’s just convenient. I liked my Administrator account as clean as possible, and I do the same in Linux with root. There is its time and place where I need root.

But you are right, I should change my habits. I’m not even sure how sudo and rights and environments and sessions and god knows what works exactly behind the scenes, so probably, maybe, there are technical differences too in the way I use these and the way how I should… I don’t know.

Anyway, thanks for the info.

is your hdd/ssd healthy?

Download the image again and/or try a different pendrive, different hole on computer.

Check MD5 sums of downloaded ISO if they provide you a sum on the webpage

it seems the internet has been geared towards people that think you have to ask the computer a question instead of searching for key words like how it used to work.

I mean, this is what we see/read in sci-fi series and movies at least since the 60’s.