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1995 for me. I bought a copy of DLD, a long-since defunct distro at a store. This was before I went to uni and before I had internet, which made learning it very frustrating. And then I wanted to use a printer. Not quite happy memories.

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

X Windows was my day 1 challenge. I loved having to change the monitor sync and hearing your monitor go “SNAP” when you start it up, then staring at basically a horizontal line. That, and the line in the Usenet posting on how to set up X Windows say “You can physically destroy your monitor here.”

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that! Yeah, Linux at that time really was something else. We've come such a long way, it's amazing.

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