• Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I remember back then it was easier installing the OS than installing third party software 🫣

  • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Hm. I started using Linux (Ubuntu) somewhat around 2007. And I was quite fascinated how flashy it was with all those desktop effects compared to the rather boring XP. Only problem I had back in the day was wifi, but I didn’t play a lot of games at that time.

    But yeah, once I solved that wifi problem I had internet, so there was a difference.

  • werty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I used xp for 15 years and i miss it. Fuck this ribbon nonsense too. Where is the desktop cloud? My precious is lost… i’m lost…i have no fucking idea where that file i just saved went… i built a pc in 2002 and progranned a vcr as well. Now i’m toast.

  • tommy_chillfiger@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Lmao I did this exact thing. Installed Ubuntu on the home desktop. Immediately occurred to me that I couldn’t connnect to the internet to look up how to do anything else. Scrambled so hard to find that XP disc and atone for my reckless folly.

  • Die Martin Die@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    My first Linux distro was Puppy Linux, on a computer with no internet. I downloaded it on an internet cafe to replace Windows XP Fenix Edition.

    My PC was too weak to run any flavor of the major distros, and I wanted to give it a go.

    Best computer-related decision of my life to ditch Windows and use Linux as my daily driver.

  • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Dude I remember when live booting knoppix was impressive. Hell my intro to Linux was mandrake. We have so many great distros and documentation available now it’s crazy.

    • Siegfried@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I ended up learning by memory the US keyboard layout because i got tired of having to change it whenever i booted knoppix up.

      Now i have all my keyboards set to US international. Best layout for programing.

  • Hexarei@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    Definitely describes my switch back in 2008 when canonical still sent out Ubuntu CDs for free in the mail. We had dial up so it was faster for them to mail me a CD than to try and download the image myself.

  • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I remember first learning about linux OS and how to create a Linux USB installer using rufus to bypass the password my parents had put on the windows side. In those days there was no eifi boot loader lock you could access the files just by trying out the new OS you had in your USB. LOL.

  • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Exactly what happened when I tried ubuntu on my brothers pc back then. Couldn’t even get the internet working. Right now I’m impressed its an easier time to install than windows.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Meanwhile I’m sitting here having grown up on among other things (like a TI-99A) with access to a Macintosh 128k, an Apple ]|[, a Commodore 64, and various 286, 386, and Pentium machines, as well as some SGI machines by the time I was 8 years old, so it would seem that I would have embraced Linux. It just never happened because consoles, and later windows dominated gaming so much that despite the fact that I have tried Linux out maybe 20 times at this point, it’s only recently that I can seriously consider switching off of windows and consoles.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Windows wouldn’t boot so I burnt an Ubuntu live image to a cd and used that to copy my files off my windows partition