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I remember being a bit of a Unix fanboy in the early 2000s and I had seen some program on EuroNews showing NASA computers running CDE or some sort of Motif base
by INTPenis 7y ago
I remember being a bit of a Unix fanboy in the early 2000s and I had seen some program on EuroNews showing NASA computers running CDE or some sort of Motif based DE.
So of course I wanted to try it. And I actually used OpenMotif for a few weeks until I switched back to Blackbox or Openbox, whatever I was using at the time.
Fun times, switching distros every month and trying new things in the Linux ecosystem.
But in practice, today, I wouldn't part with my vanilla Gnome setup on Fedora for anything.
- urxvtcd 7y agoAdmittelly I'm much younger than you, but I also tried few distros, desktop environments (even tried BSD) when I started out, only to settle on Arch/i3 combo. And now it would require a lot of energy for me to make a move. Almost like simulated annealing!
- pimeys 7y agoSame here. A year ago I got myself a X230 as a second laptop, and installed OpenBSD to it, testing NsCDE and the original CDE only to settle down to another installation of i3. It's a great laptop and OpenBSD is perfect for my use. I cannot live without i3 or sway though...
- iso-8859-1 7y agoI remember the EUMETSAT Meteosat Second Generation control panels also showing some teal on my visit in '06. I took this photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/EUMETSAT_MSG_control.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/EUMETSAT... I don't think they'd replace it with no good reason, so since the MSG program is still running, these computers probably also are.
- DonHopkins 7y agoI prefer bisque to teal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173197
- adultSwim 7y ago️️️