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Linux never had a chance with the average consumer at that time. Shall I pull up some GNOME 1 screenshots to show you? Do you know all of the refresh rates of y
by ab5tract 12y ago
Linux never had a chance with the average consumer at that time. Shall I pull up some GNOME 1 screenshots to show you? Do you know all of the refresh rates of your monitor, per resolution?
"If you get this wrong, your monitor may become inoperable or explode"
BeOS was a consumer OS, and was denied any access to consumers. Ignore vertical dynamics if you want, but the writing is clear as day to me.
- 72deluxe 12y agoI remember trying it back in the day and was mighty impressed with it; pity that more consumer applications weren't ported, as that would have given it more momentum. You were right about it being a consumer OS (other than the fiddly titlebars - too small!) I remember running XConfigurator under RedHat 5 and taking days to get my rubbish VESA card working. Such was life without the Internet (or with £££ dialup). I thought GNOME1 looked squishy and nice but when you look back on it and the KDE2 screenshots, you realise how dated it was back in the days when mice with scrollwheels didn't exist.
- optimusclimb 12y agoLOL - Thanks for the reminder of what fun Xconfigurator was, and setting up XFree86 in general. 2016 will be the year of the linux desktop though ;)
- pjmlp 12y agoYou at least had GNOME 1 already. When I looked into GNU/Linux for the first time, my options were twm, fvwm and OpenLook.
- Zardoz84 12y agoSuSE Linux 5.3 -> fvwm95, twm, KDE 1.x, and I remember playing with GNOME 1. Also was weird times, I remember that I manage to run GNOME using KDE as window manager.