I’m getting around to watching the latest LTT Linux challenge video ( https://youtu.be/kluoZ9RhmVo ) and these types of videos always make me so happy.
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I’m getting around to watching the latest LTT Linux challenge video ( https://youtu.be/kluoZ9RhmVo ) and these types of videos always make me so happy.
I remember using Slackware on my 486 back when my only experience with computers was DOS and win3.1. It took a lot of work getting online to then download the floppy images to then get into a bash shell, followed by struggling with X11R6 in the early 90s.
But it was exhilarating.
Watching these vids brings all of that joy right back and I love it.
@waffles My first experience was in 2004 with a distro whose name I cannot for the life of me remember but which got popular because you could boot from a CD to try it. It just felt so crazy to me that I had a working computer with something other than Windows.
I then spent the next couple of years dual booting Ubuntu and installing it to people’s windows computers they were going to throw out because they were “too slow.”
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@waffles My first experience was in 2004 with a distro whose name I cannot for the life of me remember but which got popular because you could boot from a CD to try it. It just felt so crazy to me that I had a working computer with something other than Windows.
I then spent the next couple of years dual booting Ubuntu and installing it to people’s windows computers they were going to throw out because they were “too slow.”
@tommertron knoppix?
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@tommertron knoppix?
@kai Yes! That was it!
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@kai Yes! That was it!
@tommertron
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@waffles My first experience was in 2004 with a distro whose name I cannot for the life of me remember but which got popular because you could boot from a CD to try it. It just felt so crazy to me that I had a working computer with something other than Windows.
I then spent the next couple of years dual booting Ubuntu and installing it to people’s windows computers they were going to throw out because they were “too slow.”
@tommertron so much this! I remember being vaguely aware that alternative OSs that ran on intel existed. I knew that “netware” was a thing, but the internet hadn’t popped off yet so it was really hard finding out more about it as a kid. I felt the same with Unix (and Linux in particular). I remember seeing screenshots of SunOS/irix/etc in wired magazine and being “what on earth is that” and then learning that Linux could run on your home PC.
Like you said, it just was a eureka moment
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@tommertron so much this! I remember being vaguely aware that alternative OSs that ran on intel existed. I knew that “netware” was a thing, but the internet hadn’t popped off yet so it was really hard finding out more about it as a kid. I felt the same with Unix (and Linux in particular). I remember seeing screenshots of SunOS/irix/etc in wired magazine and being “what on earth is that” and then learning that Linux could run on your home PC.
Like you said, it just was a eureka moment
@waffles Actually… the first eureka moment was when Gomer installed os/2 Warp on his PC. I was like WTF is happening right now.
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@waffles Actually… the first eureka moment was when Gomer installed os/2 Warp on his PC. I was like WTF is happening right now.
@tommertron holy shit I’d forgotten about that.
He was also running NT (which was less obscure) but yeah, I’d totally forgotten about os/2 warp
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@tommertron holy shit I’d forgotten about that.
He was also running NT (which was less obscure) but yeah, I’d totally forgotten about os/2 warp
@waffles Fun fact: he got that copy from my mom who in a fit of rage with Windows went out and bought it one day but then was too nervous to install it. Gomer saw it on my shelf and was like holy shit you have that? Can I borrow it? I think my mom spent like 300 bucks on it.
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@waffles Fun fact: he got that copy from my mom who in a fit of rage with Windows went out and bought it one day but then was too nervous to install it. Gomer saw it on my shelf and was like holy shit you have that? Can I borrow it? I think my mom spent like 300 bucks on it.
@tommertron i think we lose something when we minimize our computers down to laptops, tablets and phones.
When you had a desktop pc, you could potentially buy a second hdd, experiment on that, and not worry that you were destroying your only working computer.
I know, HDDs were 1$ : 1MB, so a 250MB HDD was still about 500$ in today’s money, so nothing to sneeze at…
But i love that your mom *wanted* to try something different, even if she ultimately didn’t end up going that route
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@tommertron i think we lose something when we minimize our computers down to laptops, tablets and phones.
When you had a desktop pc, you could potentially buy a second hdd, experiment on that, and not worry that you were destroying your only working computer.
I know, HDDs were 1$ : 1MB, so a 250MB HDD was still about 500$ in today’s money, so nothing to sneeze at…
But i love that your mom *wanted* to try something different, even if she ultimately didn’t end up going that route
@waffles Yeah I mean it’s tough. I rely so much on my phone and laptop I’m kinda glad I can’t mess around with them too much because they are basically rock solid from like an uptime perspective which make sense because they’re both essential to me.
But man is it fun having a pi to fuck around with for all these reasons.
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