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PCs were for boring suit types in the 90s. Windows 3.1, ugh. Lots of people ran Amigas or Macs at home and RISC workstations at university or work. Then Linux h

by zurn 12y ago

PCs were for boring suit types in the 90s. Windows 3.1, ugh. Lots of people ran Amigas or Macs at home and RISC workstations at university or work. Then Linux happened and you could run something nice even on a PC. It involved tinkering but advancing by leaps and bounds, certainly not quixotic.

joenathan 12y ago
You forgot to turn off your hipster vision.
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zak_mc_kracken 12y ago
Running something nice on Linux is still challenging today, in 2014. It was no picnic in the 90's. Credentials: I was running Linux before Linux was cool, it was called Minix.
- aestra 12y ago
  When I first started there was no automount for CD/DVD drives! That made it pretty unusable for all but the most tech savvy.
  - balakk 12y ago
    When I first started there were no CD/DVD drives :(