I really wish that I was born early so I’ve could witness the early years of Linux. What was it like being there when a kernel was released that would power multiple OSes and, best of all, for free?

I want know about everything: software, hardware, games, early community, etc.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    win8 made us realize

    Bruh you were late. Vista sucked, 7 sucked, they were shit since XP. Sure, I kept using it until 10 because I was afraid linux still didn’t work, but XP was the last time I was happy with computers until I installed Fedora.

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      3 days ago

      Nah, 7 was pretty good, although it was the last good one.

      Anything past that was garbage but frankly we tolerated it as as a teenager I was too busy being horny all the time to notice how my computer was increasingly antagonistic towards me.

      I tolerated windows 10 but windows 11 was the last nail in the coffin for me. I probably am indeed late to the party but tbh Linux didn’t inspire me until recently when I saw its became way more user-friendly than it was in 2015 when I first tried it.