My first experience with Linux was trying to install TurboLinux 6 from a CD I got at a HAM Fest.
Short story shorter, I didn’t successfully use Linux the first time until I tried a different distro (probably Debian?) a few years later.
Okay, I finished installing Debian. Why am I only seeing an X formed cursor flying around in nothing? What the hell is a Xorg?!
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?
Just laying there.
In the street?
In the street. Like the gutter.
It had like a cardboard case covering it, though.
It’s more likely than you think
The zines from the nerds of the 00’s.
One of the things I like about Linux is the feeling of likely being eaten by a grue
This was knoppix for me!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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Huh
You guys only got alcoholism??!?
Crack is whack, or at least that’s what I keep telling myself
I told you it’s not a LAN party, it’s a TokenRing party!
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.
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.
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.
It was a different time.
CD? Hah! Luxury!
We 'ad to install off floppy disk! And the disks had bad sectors and the drive kept grinding them down! Then we ‘ad to build the kernel wi’ two bare hands! And the only window manager we 'ad would spontaneously delete itself and we’d 'ave to start all over at 2am, half an hour before we finished the last install!
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.
this is not Something I experienced as I switch in 2021 (with a failed attempt in 2018)
can someone approve or deny of this
Linux in the modern day is a much comfier experience for an uninitiated user. But the real nightmare is using Linux WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION (it STILL super sucks nowadays), which depending on how you were connecting your old machine to the internet, the only solution was “… Buy a different network card/Switch ISPs entirely”
Linux has gotten a lot better about just. Supporting hardware in general. And once you GET a Linux distro (any) on the internet, your life gets much easier.
Only had dialup when hedgehog was released and could not for the life of me figure out how to enable PPP
