I use linux because, in the 90s, Redhat shipped with a Star Trek game. We are not the same.
Tux Racer go brrrr
Oh, I hadn’t thought of Tux Racer in ages. I think I need to play that again.
Tux racer go b…r…r…r
I only had access to ex-corporate office hand-me-down motherboards as a kid. This was about 1 potato per 3 seconds of rendering performance (I’m 34)
It did? Which one?
I’ve been trying to remember but it hasn’t come back to me. It was a 2D, top down, space battle game. Its possible it wasn’t named after Star Trek, but you pilot a grey ship with a saucer section and nacelles to fire torpedoes and phasers at green bird of prey looking ships so…
No, but it was my gateway into Netrek.
Xtrek would be what pops to kind for me, possibly?
That all sounds very familiar. The one I played was full color but it must have either been a late version of Empire or something heavily “inspired” by it.
I think my mother played that star trek game on a time shared minicomputer.
Linux gotta mainstream wen?
Time to switch to bsdI’ve used FreeBSD for about a month in 2005, and still can’t stop talking about it.
I dual booted it as a desktop for about 6 months around the same time, but honestly all I did is use it as a desktop and browser. I could hardly figure out how to do anything else. I’ve forgotten everything about the experience, and anything I happen to accidentally remember I try to also forget.
It’s close to 1 in 20 PCs nowadays. It’s growing very quickly, and has been adopted in non-irrelevant amounts for a few years already.
Plan9 from bell labs?
I am already learning to use FreeBSD. I definitely recommend reading the official handbook, it is even a pretty great introduction to Unix overall.
*when
Solaris tho
shutters
shudders
No shutters:
No, shudders:
I switched in the late 90s to attract women. I still think it’s going to work someday.
Any time now surely
If you’re also a woman, this may work!
That’s not a bad strategy. Just gotta add some leftist politics to the mix.
Well, theres been a push to get more women into Tech so that works in your favour.
Your job is now to lure them away from the Microsoft bros
“Come back to my house! There’s no windows! No wait- not like that- don’t go!”
Let’s not repeat the mistakes of (some!) old Unix-Heads and just welcome all newbies, please <3
You use Linux because of your superiority complex and need to be seen as cool.
I use Linux because I’m broke.
We are not the same.
I use Linux because I don’t trust windows, I don’t like the direction Microsoft is headed, and I’m bored.
We’re not the same either, but that’s ok. We can still all have each other’s backs.
Least contrarian Linux user.
yay gatekeeping!
I use Linux because of the 3D desktop cube. Who doesn’t love the cube!
And wobbly windows
Beryl?
Wtf is her problem with the cube?
ahhh i remember being a bored teenager spending his life customizing his desktop too…
Nowadays I just want a working system where I can get things done, haven’t touched my desktop environment settings in a while and certainly don’t use things like cubes or wobbly windows anymore.
Sisko and Picard.
I liked that one band before they became popular. That’s what you sound like.
I listen to band’s music because I like their music.
You listen to band because you hate music.
We are not the same?
For me it is very weird, no one introduced me formally to Linux(no one I knew run or heard of it), it felt like it was a legend. I never really got to know how good it was and always felt MacOS and Windows were lacking, never really in control of your system, never happy with my system, always patching stuff. The years went by and my curiosity only became larger as Mac and Windows experience was getting worse and worse. I already had experience Jailbreaking iPhones and flashing custom ROMs on Android since my school days, so last year I bought a PC and installed Ubuntu. Next thing I know my computer is breathing again, the grass was definitely greener here. So I switched for both reasons.
Mmmmm fresh pasta.
For me it is very weird, no one introduced me formally to Lemmy(no one I knew run or heard of it), it felt like it was a legend. I never really got to know how good it was and always felt Reddit and Twitter were lacking, never really in control of your memes, never happy with my content, always downvoting stuff. The years went by and my curiosity only became larger as Reddit and Twitter experience was getting worse and worse. I already had experience shit posting and trolling on 4chan since my school days, so last year I signed up to Lemmy and posted my first meme. Next thing I know my feed is breathing again, the grass was definitely greener here. So I switched for both reasons.
jesus
You’re absolutely right. Microsoft has systematically killed every reason I have for having their software on my pc. I’m not switching to linux because linux got better (although it certainly has). I’m ditching windows because windows now sucks more than I can bare.
My one thing I feel like I can brag about in tech circles is that I switched to Linux in 1995 (Linux kernel version 1.2.1), and I haven’t looked back since. This was even before Windows 95 was released.
Yeah, but, like, I use Arch btw
Both? Both is good
Stop stealing my brainwaves!!!
But you are correct, nonetheless.
People used Linux because Windows bad in the 2000s
Have you seen windows 11?
Is it so bad? You can turn off junk like every other Windows. As for the anticompetitive behavior Microsoft has been doing that since DOS
Not really any different than 10
I use Linux cuz I was bored one summer
That’ll probably be me this summer once I organize and backup my files
I didn’t even backup. I just went for it
