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I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it's been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to be fair if you don't have a Ventoy stick with a dozen or so distros and recovery tools by now you deserve to be scrambling for a boot disk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😱 I'd never heard of a Ventoy stick until you mentioned it. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hadn't heard of it either, this is super useful! It's funny the things you'll find just around the place on Lemmy.