This is what Linux was like in the 90s

[cobito]

For the nostalgic ones who used Linux back then, you might like this presentation.

Back then I was more of a Windows 95/98 guy, but many of the things that this David Cantrell is talking about I have heard/read before and it has been interesting to see how the topic has evolved from being a pain in the ass of an operating system to being truly easy to use and configure these days:

[Fassou]

Nothing like telling with humor some great truths about Linux

Salu2!

[Bm4n]

Great truths from two decades ago, I started with linux when it began to be affordable, in Suse 8 or 9 around 2003, at least you could install and have the graphical environment and sound working without dying in the attempt. But well in W95 the drivers were also a toothache.

Thank goodness that now things have changed, plug and play, generics, open source as a base, larger communities, generalist distros, more private investment… Now it’s almost easier to use linux than windows.

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[Yorus]

I'll watch the video tomorrow, I have to save 3g data, but I'll make comments like abuelo cebolleta ;D.

I can't remember if I started with Mandrake 7.1 or 8.0/8.1, what is certain is that it was thanks to this forum and the great movement that was here in the early years about this system. Today we are no longer so divided between Windows and Linux, but most of us have used one or the other at some point, in my case almost 50% and in others it leans much more towards one of the two, more towards Windows than Linux as always.

Since then everything has changed a lot, Linux is more popular although the usage share has not improved much, but in many schools Linux was not even known and now it is almost always touched in computer science modules. I used KDE, I stopped liking it and preferred Gnome, and now I don't like Gnome either, I'm more of a Cinnamon or Mate (they are more classic Gnome than Gnome). Before you had silly games, now I have Steam with Civilization V native, without Wine or bagpipes. The driver issue is clearly something that was and will continue to be a problem, but it has improved a lot.

If something hasn't changed is that I liked Linux and I still like it, and I see that Windows 10 is not going to change this, rather confirm it.
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Written from Windows 7 Home Premium