me after installing Ubuntu because it was the only other OS I’d ever heard of, because I accidentally nuked my Windows Vista install by trying to overclock the CPU in a Gateway laptop:
Similarly, my XP install just died and I didn’t have a copy of Windows to reinstall. Gnome 2 taught me computers don’t have to look or feel boring and the terminal taught me they weren’t scary.
Learned a lot that first year.
hehe, mine was Ubuntu too. I thought I’d fucked up the emachines tower my parents just bought me.
us emachines and gateway kids grew up to be lightweight distro enthusiasts
like now my laptop has 16 gigs RAM, quad core fuck even knows GHz processor, and a GPU but if a process starts using >2% of my resources i will
-killall -9it from orbit
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.
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.
Yes, with Mandriva. I had just switched from 98 to Xp and was like “No, no, no, this sucks!”.
Mandriva looked so nice in comparison. But no internet, it just wouldn’t connect and I didn’t know how to troubleshoot it.
Honestly there are probably very few people who can troubleshoot dial up on Linux.
My first was SuSE 6 or something like that, back in the 90s. And my mom freaked out, because the PC didn’t boot Windows95 anymore. And I had a huge book, telling me what to do. It came with the CDs.
Iirc Suse used to give away previous versions to highschools, so probably yours was running Yast with a lot of software included.
Damn that was my exact experience
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.
I remember getting a copy of linux from my friends at a local LAN party (though it was tokenring party for us) around ‘96. 2 floppy disks. I’m 99% sure it was slackware.
Poor kid. My condolences. I hope you’re able to keep your alcoholism in check.
Huh
You guys only got alcoholism??!?
Crack is whack, or at least that’s what I keep telling myself
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.
Shit, what games could be played on token ring?
Token Ring is a network protocol where a token—a small data packet—circulates 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
Not really. It was a local network, and sure the latency increased linearly with the number of nodes, but for a small LAN party it would be quite serviceable.
Yeah, sorry. Nerded out there for a sec on description. I don’t 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 couldn’t 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.
doom’s netcode is weird as well, all the clients run in perfect lock-step. seems like it would be weird on non-duplex networks.
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.
SUSE on 6 CDs
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
lying
No, it’s true!
Dad?
The zines from the nerds of the 00’s.
Just laying there.
In the street?
It’s more likely than you think
In the street. Like the gutter.
It had like a cardboard case covering it, though.
Whats this meme called, I need to post some things
@coacoamelky @azha not sure if serious, but just paste a black box over the text - profit
Just be sure to post some memes to !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !
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.
thats me installing windows in the 90s, waiting for hours, not sure if it just froze
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.
One of the things I like about Linux is the feeling of likely being eaten by a grue
