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Gnome Bash shell Pulseaudio The earliest days of grub bootloader, which is baroque complex compared to the LILO everyone used for years previous. Classic nv
by VLM 7y ago
Gnome
Bash shell
Pulseaudio
The earliest days of grub bootloader, which is baroque complex compared to the LILO everyone used for years previous.
Classic nvi as default vi (as opposed to vim)
Some of the turn of the century weirdness around xfree86 and x.org fork battle
Frankly, worship of POSIX was always tiresome to deal with.
- marcosdumay 7y agoAnd the classical egcc vs. gcc, but this one is older than Debian. Anyway, Gnome was eventually downgraded into "an alternative"; Bash is not the default Debian default shell anymore, it's only default for interactive sessions; Pulse is impossible to get ride of nowadays and still impossible to use; the Grub one kept going until Grub2 that was actually better than LILO; vim won, hands down, as it should; everybody gave up on xfree86 once x.org become better. Except for pulse, as soon as the preferred alternative became better than the one the change-resistant people wanted, resistance simply vanished. Pulse is outed on the above example because well, it never became better than the alternatives, but still there was never any sizeable resistance, just some noise or lack of it.