> Installing software on linux truly sucked before package managers.

Although UN-installing software was possibly even worse!

Who you calling grandma! :)

Ahh, reading the Makefile to find switches you need or don't; documentation, ain't nobody got time for README, yah I'll take the default switches; also moving where the binary will be installed, sometimes an obscure library will not be in the path, have to find it, oops, wrong version, upgrade lib, oops, breaks backward dependency of something else, revert, put new lib in different place, mod path, make clean ... First time I used yum, I thought, my God, my barbarian life!

Also, kernel patching roll-back! If you put in a kernel patch that broke stuff, go get the LiveCD and make some coffee and call your spouse, you gonna be there a while.

Network booting, that too. I mean, is network booting 10x local boot? I can't say, but you're not going to make a data center filled with tens of thousands of nodes if you can't network boot.

That joke persists in the DeFi / yield farming space right now, except with sillier names because the main services have names like Sushi and Pancake

Sorry to have ask, but do you mind explaining this joke? I'm trying to fit in "grandma so senile she can't Pancake; sushi install" but it's not clicking.

something like “She cant mint aUSDC to farm CAKE”

there are better tweets and memes floating around about how convoluted yield farming really is

Not just packages managers, but repositories. When I started using Linux, I was still downloading or building RPM files, and manually working out dependencies. The idea that you could suddenly netboot a tiny image and `apt-get install xfce4-desktop` was amazing.

When I installed my first Linux (Red Hat 9) I was trying to install Gaim on it. I was trying different methods and I managed to install it by source compilation but not through rpm.

Yeah, I started out on Red Hat (maybe 3 or 4.x) and spent years fighting with RPM dependencies. At one point I installed one of those source only distros on a spare machine for fun ("Source Mage", before Gentoo took over that space). For all the misery involved in having to compile everything from scratch on slow hardware, I was absolutely blown away that mplayer with proprietary codecs just worked out of the box. It always took me hours to get the right combination of packages on Red Hat to make that work and would frequently break whenever I updated anything.