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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostMeh, it's all relative. I've been running Linux as my primary desktop system since 1997. Slackware 3.2 on a *dual* Pentium 133 Mhz board, Matrox PCI graphics, 3DFX voodoo. First FVWM, then the newly released WindowMaker, and Enlightenment were my WM's of choice. Id Software released Linux binaries for GLquake that used the 3DFX board, it was awesome. StarOffice 4.0 allowed me to read/write the MS Office file formats for my university coursework. XMMS and RealPlayer provided many enjoyable hours of MP3 and streaming, plus it was the Napster heyday. 1997 was a really great year to make the switch to Linux.
(S.u.S.E / SLS ( Slack)) --- first on floppy disks
ol(v)wm (SUN, self compiled) and then KDE from the beginning...
NCSA Mosaic / Netscape?!
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostMeh, it's all relative. I've been running Linux as my primary desktop system since 1997. Slackware 3.2 on a *dual* Pentium 133 Mhz board, Matrox PCI graphics, 3DFX voodoo. First FVWM, then the newly released WindowMaker, and Enlightenment were my WM's of choice. Id Software released Linux binaries for GLquake that used the 3DFX board, it was awesome. StarOffice 4.0 allowed me to read/write the MS Office file formats for my university coursework. XMMS and RealPlayer provided many enjoyable hours of MP3 and streaming, plus it was the Napster heyday. 1997 was a really great year to make the switch to Linux.
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Been running Linux as my primary on and off again since probably around 1999 and the really early versions of Mandrake! I remember building my very first computer, a dual P3 1Ghz machine and spending every last bit of coin on the hardware then finding out I could not afford the copy of Windows 2000 needed to run on it (due to the dual CPUs). Ended up in staples buying a boxed set of Mandrake discs for something like 20$.
Linux has come so incredibly far since then. Its been my primary OS for the last 4 years or so, these days even the majority of my gaming is done on Linux. The last outstanding weakness I cant seem to overcome on it is SolidWorks and Revit. I keep a VM with GPU passthrough around for those when I need them.
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Originally posted by grigi View PostI think for me it was around 2008 where I stopped caring about Windows. I have been trying Linux since someone gave me RedHat 6.0 install cd's. Apparently the first ones with an installer. I have been using Linux often from about 2001, I think.
I had to setup a printer for a windows 10 laptop last year, and wondered why it didn't just automatically work, had to download 280MB of "drivers" that annoy you with flashy animations before it worked.
It's almost like Linux made me lazy.
On Windows 10 for a PS3 controller you have to get on a search engine, do some research, and then download some 3rd party tool that "works" "well enough"...and that's both for wired and wireless. On Linux wired just works by default and we have to install the bluez-util package (or whatever your distro calls it) for wireless and then two major desktops have built-in controller configuration tools.
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I think for me it was around 2008 where I stopped caring about Windows. I have been trying Linux since someone gave me RedHat 6.0 install cd's. Apparently the first ones with an installer. I have been using Linux often from about 2001, I think.
I had to setup a printer for a windows 10 laptop last year, and wondered why it didn't just automatically work, had to download 280MB of "drivers" that annoy you with flashy animations before it worked.
It's almost like Linux made me lazy.
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Originally posted by wizard69 View PostIts a beautiful time to be involved in Linux. 10 years ago it would have been a struggle to run Linux as your primary system.
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Originally posted by Tvashtar View PostWe'll see how it goes, setting ACO as the default for RADV made it extra buggy
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