• Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

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

  • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    12 hours 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
      3·
      12 hours 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.

  • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 hours 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
    3·
    11 hours 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
    2·
    11 hours 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
    2·
    11 hours 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.

  • Hexarei@programming.dev
    7·
    16 hours 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.

  • psion1369@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 hours ago

    My Linux journey was pre XP, I was still in 98Se edition and my Linux disk didn’t have a working GUI on it.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    22·
    1 day ago

    It forced me to learn. It took me weeks to get X configured and working correctly. I had an internet subscription and a modem but it also took weeks to get it to work on Linux. My distribution came on a CD from a magazine but some dependencies were not included, so I had to reboot under Windows to download a missing package, reboot on Linux and try again, then need to get the next dependency. We came a long long way from having to specify the vertical refresh rate of the monitor in xf86config.

    Starting with a French version of Slackware was brutal but I had nothing else.

    • myrak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      24 hours ago

      Be 12 in 1998

      Literally just ecstatic that I could wiggle around a little X on a blank screen after giving up trying to load a window manager.

      Pop in a BeOS live CD to feel like I did something cool

      • RaccoonBall@lemm.ee
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Exact same experience. What district did you install for the cursor wiggle? Mine was slackware

        Later mandrake was noob friendly enough for me to get a real start

    • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Started on Slackware too. I remember building my own kernel and having to make sure it fit on a 1.44MB floppy.

      make menuconfig

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    106·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    22 hours 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.