• Damage@feddit.it
    1·
    12 days ago

    I mean, I managed to fuck up my Windows 95 just by installing a couple of games. God knows how that happened.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      I remember!

      My family just got a new computer; running the brand new Win95. It was so fancy, I can’t remember what game it was, but I couldn’t get the sound to work, so I tried reinstalling the sound drivers…

      I managed to completely nuke our 2 day old PC. Had to get a friend of my stepdad to come and fix it…basically reinstall Windows. I have no idea what I did, but I did learn from that point, you can basically fix anything not hardware related given a bit of time and knowledge.

      And that was my origin story, been using Linux full time since 2007, and dabbled for a few years before that.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        12 days ago

        “Reinstall windows” was such a common solution, I still have my windows 95 and my windows XP key memorized (and no, not the FCKGW one)

      • Damage@feddit.it
        1·
        12 days ago

        Same, but I did not mess with the drivers. Learnt quickly how to format and reinstall after the first visit from the “computer guy”.