![]() Compiz effects were all the rage as well. The aesthetics of this time frame were shaped a lot by Windows Vista, for better or worse. The DE community was less fragmented, because the two major environments, KDE and GNOME, while having different philosophies, were both usable by anyone, as-is. Getting WiFi drivers to work was sometimes a pain, especially with anything Broadcom Zachsandberg: “GNOME was fully functional Linux users definitely have it easier than those of us who have been using Linux for the past decade.” Still have to tweak the Grub config to add some kernel boot params, but it's rare. ![]() These days, it's all done for you and everyone has internet access. Once I got all that shit figured out, I was peachy. 2008 came along and I got my first taste at dealing with ATI graphics drivers. Wasn't until about 2007 that I got my first laptop and had to deal with the hell of getting WiFi to work. I didn't have to mess around too much with hardware problems then. Eventually got Ubuntu 6.06 working to the point where I could listen to music, play games, do homework (mostly essays), print, etc. I had no internet connection and was frequenting the local library (12 miles away) with a flash drive trying to download. Notahappycamper: “June 2006 was my first taste of Linux. Nqbw: “Back in the olden days, I remember having to write my own XF86Config in Debian using the refresh rates written on the back of my CRT monitor. Today, all works quite well without any in depth knowledge of compiling your own kernel module.” The only reason we've managed to come so far is because people have put the time and effort in to making sure that graphics cards and wireless adaptors now work without any pain.ġ0 years ago, if you bought a laptop, you might spend the first couple of days just getting the wireless working, and that was a huge barrier to entry for newbies. Mythtv with a cable tuner card, back when both of those were popular and viable”ĭeusmetallum: “The biggest difference is drivers. Thinking e17 would be finished sometime soon, despite being on its third reworking from the ground up Getting pissed at radeon because fglrx never worked with the latest xorg packages for a month or three.īeryl/compiz fusion! It was fun to have a desktop with graphical effects considering how few games ran on linux at the time Now it seems everything just gets put in one big-ass / filesystem.įactorion: “Writing alsa config files and hoping that they will update their drivers soon to support that new sound blaster card you bought. Also, sysadmins actually used multiple filesystems for the OS. Everybody finally moved away from LILO and was using GRUB. The /sys filesystem in the 2.6 kernel made Linux more mature. What you did with Linux hasn't changed much (web server, db server, etc) but the internals are totally different with systemd and UDEV. If you were running 64-bit Linux, don't forget the 32-bit compatibility libraries! That was a problem for a while. Server: Linux Standards Base (LSB) was still a thing and SUSE and REDHAT were pretty similar. Getting your wireless card on your laptop to work with Linux was a badge of honor. Wine sounded great, but no one can get it to work properly. Lots of Version 1.0 software that didn't make it to 2.0. It seemed that every commercial app was going to be replaced with FOSS. "I don't use a GUI" were religious ideologies and not just choices. Everything else was very similar to Debian.”īigredradio: “It would depend on your usage of Linux.ĭesktop: It was hipster-ish to be running Linux as your primary desktop. I think the big thing was the desktop was usable out of the box after the installation. I'd experimented with a few live CDs, knoppix and Debian based distros before but had never had the guts to install permanently on my machine until Warthog.”Īkkaone: “The installation process was identical to Debians curses based installation in the first Ubuntu realeses. Personally it's what got me interested in using it at the time. ![]() It was so user friendly compared to the distros that came before it, especially the installation process. 609: “Ubuntu was really starting to get established around 2006-2007 and it definitely drew in a new crowd of people getting excited about using and developing for Linux.
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