This image was created by /u/kuebic@discuss.tchncs.de for this comment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21735989. I had encouraged them to post it somewhere, but as far as I can tell, they never did.
Panel 1: “Installing Windows 20 years ago” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: “Installing Linux 20 years ago” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: “Installing Windows today” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: “Installing Linux today” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Tbh, Installing Gentoo today is basically the same as it was in the first screenshot anyway :D But then again, most people would object to conflating the Gentoo installation to the “Linux installation”
And there be ways to install gentoo [based respins] with a gui, even 20 years ago.
I installed gentoo slightly over 20 years ago and I don’t remember a ui for it. I do remember compiling the Linux kernel
Okay, let me clarify that with an edit, adding [based respins].
E.g Sabayon’s first release was out 20 years ago.
I remember trying sabayon at the time and being disappointed enough to return to gentoo 😁
Sabayon was my 2nd home, after suse, and just before my 3rd, proper gentoo. So I sabayon’d before I gentoo’d. The sabayon 3.* series was glorious. All aside distro surfing live systems, multiboots, and distro hopping on my other machine. Then came bedrock, and I stopped my rabid distro-surfing, without getting rid of gentoo.
But yeah, if you’re already on gentoo at the time of encountering sabayon, toorox, calculate, redcore, clover, or whatever, it’ll be a hard sell, having already chosen to have it your way. Gentoo’s all about choice, and best way to do that is to do pure gentoo. But still, only point I was making bringing up the others, is that even gentoo can be installed with a gui installer.