I don’t get it… Arch install is pretty straight forward?!?

Well, that was a sentence often heard at a former employer… we employees often followed up with “… yeah, but the family name is Corleone”

Nah, '95 was best. BBS systems were in their final bloom, Usenet was better than everything that came afterwards (OK, the fediverse maaaay be a good successor) and there were still the COOL systems (Atari, Commodore…) around even after their respective companies had abandoned them.

You also could make some decent money if you had some rudimentary coding skills… I financed my first motorcycle (for which I hadn’t a driving license, mind you) by writing a (QBASIC? Visual Basic? I don’t remember) software for managing car parts for some local used car dealers.

They didn’t get most references in the 80s/90s either… this is the reason why nerds seemed weird…

Well, for me personally this would be EmuTOS

And the guys who invented UNIX did so by using toggle switches and teletypes…