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>> Desktop computer systems, especially those based on Linux, are way more complicated than typical personal computers in the 80s and 90s.

Because in the 80s things would boot to a DOS prompt or a basic interpreter and you had to know some commands to type to get anything to happen. Today they boot to GUI with useful applications to run. Well, except for Windows.



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