what was using linux like during the 1990s and really early 2000s?
>>55119763
It was like using Windows, except you had to do everything yourself over the phone.
>>55119763
Better because there was no pulseaudio or systemd.
Ugly as sin with a lot of file permission changes via terminal. I only ever used it for academic purposes because there was no other attraction for me to play around.
>>55119763
worse because nothing worked right and no one knew why
>>55119821
I know why
>>55119821
This was true even from installation. I bought a big guide to Red Hat from the bookstore that came with a CD. Followed every instruction to the letter, tried over and over throughout the course of a month, fiddled with every little aspect of the disk and partitions...nothing. I wanted it so badly that I wonder whether my life would have taken a different route if I had the opportunity to chew through that book and learn. Instead I spent time learning about this thing they used in business called Windows NT.
hard
tons of hardware just didn't work. LILO was a piece of shit. XFree86 was also a huge piece of shit that requried arcane configuration known neither to man nor beast.
>>55119899
glad we've made no progress in wifi stick drivers since then :^
>>55119763
>install linux
>change one harmless setting somewhere like wallpaper or location of taskbar
>entire system hangs, freezes, and refuses to boot
Basically the same as it is now.
>>55119763
my first experience was with slackware in 1996, which I installed with 14 floppies.
I also bought a corel linux box package.
