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My dad bought me an Anthlon64 machine for Christmas and we put it together. Not know much about anything, I remember being pissed off/confused that I didn’t hav
by nickysielicki 7y ago
My dad bought me an Anthlon64 machine for Christmas and we put it together. Not know much about anything, I remember being pissed off/confused that I didn’t have Windows XP 64-bit in spite of having that Anthlon64 sticker on the front.
A few years later my brother was starting a web server to host a forum for the Digital TV switch-over focused on the Madison, WI market, shout-out and RIP madcityhd.com
Watching him setup Fedora on the box on the floor of his bedroom and using Compiz wobbly-windows was enough to hook me. I stole his install CD and nuked my drive (much to the irritation of my dad, who knew that I would be stealing one of his nights to reinstall Windows when I eventually realized could no longer play counter-strike), It was fun to see it come full-circle a year or two after I was ticked-off about my Anthlon64 not running a 64 bit operating system, when I started trying other distos and realized, “Hey, I can actually use the 64 bit one now!”
Fun times. I wonder how many kids got hooked on Linux by wobbly windows. I know that’s what brought me in, haha.
- Ellipsis753 7y agoWobbly windows were the main reason I switched to Linux. Been using it for everything ever since... Kind of amazing that could be a "killer app".
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoThere was actually a 64bit version of Windows XP which I inflicted on my dad for a while - sounds like you did well to avoid it ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Ed...