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When I let Windows update and now I have to pay $10/month to unlock my computer (media2.giphy.com)
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When I let Windows update and now I have to pay $10/month to unlock my computer
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[+] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Pfft, amateur. My first was some version of red hat (2? 2.1?) that took me almost a week to download, then I had to compile it, and then load onto, like, eight floppies.

    I can’t even tell you how many attempts I made before I actually succeeded in getting it to install, but it was one of the more traumatic experiences of my teenage years.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Slack 2 or 3 here I couldn't get it to install because it didn't have CD ROM drivers that worked with mine. Little did teenage me know I could have just copied the disk images to floppies but neither the sound or CD would have worked. I actually just installed it on a VM in Proxmox a couple weeks ago though. Now my windows 3.11 can telnet into my slack 2.3 box because why not.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    Slackware 1.0 was at least 1-2 years later and a huge leap forward. Even Red Hat 2.5 was a major leap because it was the first Linux distributable that was pre-compiled and feee to download. It was also bundled with X.org and gnome desktop. That was a big deal at the time. The open source community was very political, even back then.

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