Linux in the 90s was figuring out which distribution had usable versions of the software you wanted to use, and hoping that an update to one package didn’t brea

Linux in the 90s was figuring out which distribution had usable versions of the software you wanted to use, and hoping that an update to one package didn’t break everything else. That, or rolling your own distro from scratch and spending ALL YOUR TIME maintaining your Linux install somthere was no time left to do the stuff you actually wanted to do. Oh look, updating my windows manager means sound no longer works. I guess that’s three hours I need to invest to get my music player working again. See you tomorrow.