Installing Linux Like It's 1999 - eviltoast
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What has your experience with Linux been like so far? How long has been your Linux journey? Mine began while I was studying computer science, and I’ve been in love with Linux since.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    12·
    2 months ago

    Wow. I had this on my removable hard drive for our operating systems class in college back in 2000.

    • bababu@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Seeing all the issues in the video, I feel like my experience with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx as my first self-installed Linux OS was much smoother :D

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
        7·
        2 months ago

        Oh yeah. Ubuntu really simplified everything.

        My first distro on my own PC was Mandrake. I don’t know how many times I had to reinstall it because of my fuckups.

        Two years later I was compiling my own kernel with the source code of special modules that I had downloaded for my NVidia card that had composite video input.

        I’ve never had to compile a kernel since Ubuntu. I completely forgot to be honest.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 months ago

      me too. it had some unspecified issue with xorg that prevented bootup and i was never able to fix.

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
        3·
        2 months ago

        Internet access was more complicated back then. If you didn’t have a second computer or couldn’t dual boot into a working OS it was a big problem. And there wasn’t a lot of Linux users back then either.

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 months ago

          yea no way i would have been willing or even able to troubleshoot it at that time.

          i just gave up until ubuntu came around many years later and just worked.