Zoran Jeremiฤ‡Dec 30
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Dec 30 at 12:36pmBuffer
Show threadjugaderoDec 30
@itsfoss Apt.
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@jugadero heh nice 
Show threadTywรจleDec 30
@itsfoss smooth
Show threadbparconsDec 30
@itsfoss awed
Show threadBack To AnalogDec 30

@itsfoss

Nice!

Show threadHuubjeDec 30
@itsfoss "...the fuck is a Slackware and who is Bob?..."
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@Huubje lol
Show threadfab:logDec 30
@itsfoss totalConfusion. Is that one word?
Show threadLance, Enjoying Copious PollenDec 30
@itsfoss Mandrake.
Show threadFabian TranschelDec 30

@itsfoss What's this LiLo thing and why does it not work.

Also, I had windows on this machine. Where is it?

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@ftranschel haha, apt
Show threadzloyDec 30
@itsfoss Wow!
Show threadPsychoticSheepDec 30
RTFM (SUSE Linux 7.3 as a child... 7 CDs, 4 books, no internet!)
Show threadMrtn ๐Ÿง๐Ÿบ๐Ÿง…Dec 30
@itsfoss Zen
Show threadZoran Jeremiฤ‡Dec 30
@itsfoss personal
Show threadHisVirusnessDec 30
@itsfoss Infuriating, since I couldn't play Fallout or Unreal Tournament.
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@HisVirusness Things are better now though ๐Ÿ˜…
Show threadHisVirusnessDec 31
@itsfoss It took two and a half decades, but we got there.
Show threadBill, organizer of stuffDec 30
@itsfoss drivers
Show threadQweyDec 30
@itsfoss mint
Show threadredm00n748Dec 30
@itsfoss confused
Show threadCapitรฃ Jack No ComandoDec 30
@itsfoss it comes with emulator, nice(Kurumin Linux circa 2009)
Show threadzoranparmesanDec 30

@itsfoss

Ooo

Show threadmascDec 30
@itsfoss top ;-)
Show threadInsightNest OfficialDec 30
@itsfoss it was 11 years ago, it was Ubuntu and it was "wow!"
Show threadmortnDec 30
@itsfoss Ambivalence, is the one word describing my first week with Linux slightly more than 20 years ago ๐Ÿฅน It was quite the humbling experience with the immense freedom to build and break everything, and the difference between the two was sometimes just a semicolon ๐Ÿ˜… Thank you #Debian, #Redhat, and #Canonical for all the fun, the sleepless nights, and mostly for all the awesome work.
Show threadOlle GladsรธDec 30
@itsfoss Nothing works, but the screensaver is pretty.
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@Olle_Gladso ๐Ÿคฃ
Show threadRebel ZhangDec 30
@itsfoss sudo
Show threadaustralopithecusDec 30
@itsfoss
Mine was just this past year, and the word I'd pick is "boring"--which is great, the OS itself *should* be boring. It's the background. You should ideally be able to forget it's even there.
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyDec 31
@australopithecus @itsfoss I've not thought of it this way before. I guess I might feel bored while using it at work. I talk about it like it just does what I'd expect it to do. It really is boring when it works. Yet... when you do break it, it's a journey.
Show threadNicoDec 30
@itsfoss winmodem
Show threadWGDec 30
@itsfoss Frustrating. This was back in 2007 using what turned out to be a very buggy interim release distro on a laptop that was having its own problems. Things went better in 2008 when I used an LTS release from a different distro.
Show threadJohn McDermottDec 30
@itsfoss I'd been a UNIX user for years, taught C, and had studied Minix in school, so it seemed like a useful tool. Lots of floppies to load ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
Show threadPieroDec 30
@itsfoss Backup everything.
Show threadRenรฉ Seindal (MOVED)Dec 30

@itsfoss

I was happy it didn't panic and dumped core over the boot sector of my 40Mb harddisk. Netbsd did that. Not fun!

Then I started calculating hsync and vsync to get X11 to run on my svga display.

It felt surprisingly like home after eight years with 4.2BSD and 4.3.

Show threadMichele ADec 30

@itsfoss

Meltdown

Mental meltdown, in 1998, after being unable to configure X on RedHat, I resorted to some obscure tool which converted Debian packages to RPM, and used it to try to reinstall X on RH from converted deb packages.

Needless to say, a Very Bad Idea.

Butchered my RH install, spent 2 days trying to recover that, and finally installed SUSE.

Almost 30 years and countless distributions later (incl. hardcore-ish stuff), I still lack the courage to install or manage RH(EL).

Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyDec 31
@michelealbrigo @itsfoss It might help that I'm feeling high, but this was hilarious to read. 
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@michelealbrigo oh no, sad to hear ๐Ÿ˜“
Show thread bitterseedsDec 30
@itsfoss floppies
Show threadAlcedo AtthisDec 30
@itsfoss freedom
Show threadWilliam Weber BerruttiDec 30
@itsfoss Wow!
Show threadMichael McWilliamsDec 30
@itsfoss Invigorating.
Show threadliberloebi ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿฆ Dec 30
@itsfoss Adventure
Show threadDmitri Goosens Dec 30

@itsfoss

Epiphany

Show threadNabiuxheDec 31
@itsfoss Orange-brown
Show threadwod0bowDec 31
@itsfoss Finally
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyDec 31
@itsfoss Journey
I chose that word as #Linux really is a journey of making attempts to understand why everyone and their mother, who used Linux, preached it's praises. Just to get dunked on over and over depending on the year it is, just to get one step further than the last attempt. Over 20 years of hearing and using it was part of that journey. I absolutely hated it. Had to uses it in College and work. Got more comfortable with it, until I could feel comfortable removing Windows entirely.
Show threadJailin DerozenDec 31
@itsfoss Fix?
Show threadLinkyKatsumiVTDec 31
@itsfoss Addictive
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@linkachus17 it is, very!
Show threadOzDec 31
@itsfoss my first Linux was in the nineties, so would say "hard" ๐Ÿคฃ
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@oz_75 agreed ๐Ÿคฃ
Show threadjerDec 31
@itsfoss "silence"
Show threadel_haych2024Dec 31
@itsfoss surprisingly chill
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@el_haych2024 indeed ๐Ÿ˜„
Show threadLeon StudiosDec 31
@itsfoss simple
Show threadTravaroDec 31
Free
Show threadNemeyesDec 31
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Freedom