This was knoppix for me!
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That amazing experience of having to print out instructions at a friends house to recover a dual-boot system after either grub fucked up or windows XP fucked up. Good times.
My first system was hacked so fast. Thank you RedHat for defaulting all services on.
I am in this picture and I don't like it.
This is me on my first PC that I built myself... and Windows XP lacked the S-ATA drivers. Suse worked fine, tho.
Only had dialup when hedgehog was released and could not for the life of me figure out how to enable PPP
this is not Something I experienced as I switch in 2021 (with a failed attempt in 2018)
can someone approve or deny of this
Linux in the modern day is a much comfier experience for an uninitiated user. But the real nightmare is using Linux WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION (it STILL super sucks nowadays), which depending on how you were connecting your old machine to the internet, the only solution was "... Buy a different network card/Switch ISPs entirely"
Linux has gotten a lot better about just. Supporting hardware in general. And once you GET a Linux distro (any) on the internet, your life gets much easier.
Never really thought about it, but that first time exploring after using XP/2000 really did kinda feel like a backrooms kind of experience. It's all so familiar, but nothing is in the right place.
Seems like the experience difference is less so these days, what with everything being mostly web apps or mobile.
Okay, I finished installing Debian. Why am I only seeing an X formed cursor flying around in nothing? What the hell is a Xorg?!
this is truly a formative memory
One of the things I like about Linux is the feeling of likely being eaten by a grue
CD? Hah! Luxury!
We 'ad to install off floppy disk! And the disks had bad sectors and the drive kept grinding them down! Then we 'ad to build the kernel wi' two bare hands! And the only window manager we 'ad would spontaneously delete itself and we'd 'ave to start all over at 2am, half an hour before we finished the last install!
It was a different time.
I remember finding an early ubuntu CD just lying in the street. Took it home, and I'll be damned if it didn't turn my ailing laptop right around. Got 5 more years out of that thing.
Friend of mine once found a frozen-over cd of "Shaggy - Wasn't Me" in his backyard, and after cleaned and thawed, it worked no problem. I guess someone really hated that single?
Wasn't me
Wow an Ubuntu CD just casually laying on the streets
The zines from the nerds of the 00's.
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I remember getting a copy of linux from my friends at a local LAN party (though it was tokenring party for us) around β96. 2 floppy disks. Iβm 99% sure it was slackware.
I told you it's not a LAN party, it's a TokenRing party!
I started with floppies too, when I bought my copy of Conectiva Linux 3.0. It came with a hefty manual that was instrumental for a newbie like me.
Shit, what games could be played on token ring?
Token Ring is a network protocol where a tokenβa small data packetβcirculates around a ring topology, allowing only the device holding the token to transmit data, thus avoiding collisions. We played Doom and Quake.
I know what it is, and I played both those on lan, but my older bro set it up so I guess I just don't remember. Fucking crazy that shit could work fast enough.
I don't remember, what was the lag like for token ring? Lan just feels like it should be 100 ping or less
Yeah, sorry. Nerded out there for a sec on description. I donβt remember the lag that much, doom was ok. I think we all upgraded to 10Base-T ethernet (you remember the bnc stuff) after playing quake and host tended to have the gaming advantage. A few of us worked at a pc repair shop, so we could source (aka borrow) the parts if we couldnβt afford to buy them.
A few laters Quake world came out, someone finally popped for a hub and we all had 100mbit cards installed. But around then, we got @HOME in my neighborhood and gamespy was my new friend. I hated hauling my whole setup once a month after a year or so.
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Hah, yeah I got a Debian floppy and then tried to install packages over DSL. Somehow it didn't immediately kill my interest in Linux, eventually ran OpenBSD as my server for a while.
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Whats this meme called, I need to post some things
