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SethStorm666

The people behind this coloring book have a wicked sense of humor or it could be that Star Wars coloring book is a bad idea.

iroylearner111

What made you guys switch to linux. For me I didn't wanted to pay Microsoft for an OS or gamble my privacy by using a cracked windows.

SethStorm666

iroylearner111

That takes me back to 1999 with Corel Linux with KDE (version 2 I think). I was unhappy that I couldn't customize Windows 98/Me as I want it and I friend of mine told me about Linux, so I bought Corel Linux from the local electronic store and there my journey started into GNU/Linux land 🙂

Staudey

iroylearner111 I had tried Linux several times over the years, first two decades ago or so, but it never quite seemed like it could act as a full Windows replacement for me (especially since I liked to play video games too). Then in 2017 I was getting fed up with the state of Windows, and how reporting issues in e.g. the "Feedback Hub" never led to anything. I wanted a system where I can fix bugs myself, and something that feels like a community around it, not the sterile Windows customer relationship. I had tried Manjaro the year before that, but it borked my system, so I was looking for something new and somehow I landed on Solus. Right from the start it simply worked better than Windows for me, I could contribute my own fixes and improvements, and the community was fun to engage with. While I had, and still have, a dual-boot system with Windows 10 set up, these days I basically never have to make use of it. From the start I only had to still use Windows for some games, but due to Valve's heavy involvement gaming on Linux is pretty painless these days, and there are only a select few that absolutely won't work (and those ~~should~~ can be avoided).

stalebrim

iroylearner111 masochism

iroylearner111

SethStorm666 Whoa. You are a hardcore linux fan. You got my respect

Sebastian

SethStorm666 This reminds me of how I got started with Linux. It was also in the late ninties. My first ever Linux was a RedHat 6. something I believe I purchased in a garage sale. Never got X11 working with that, but all those fancy commad line commands got my attention. Then, I bought SuSE in my local store of german department store chain "Karstadt", which had to been rescued from bankrupcy at least 5 times since then since they still operate their business as if the were in 1900 and never understood as so many others that online shopping gonna be a thing. Back then, we still dialed into internet with a 56k modem, and highspeed internet was just a dream.
So, I remember having bought the newest SuSE version at Karstadt several times. I think there was a personal and a pro version available, which cost something between 39 and 79 Deutsche Mark. And it was literally a box with8 to 12 CD's containing all of the OS packages, and for installation you had constanly keep switching the CD's. (like playing Mortal Combat on Amiga 500).
And I remember being really happy with SuSE 8.3 with KDE and everything was working nice, and good calendar, email addressbook integration.
This was before SuSE was bought by Novell. It was just a german company located in Nuremberg.
I then eventually switched to Debian for some years, then I had an EEEpc which could only run very lightweight distros such as Bunsenlabs/Chrunchbang, then I believe I was using Ubuntu shortly, before I discovered Solus.
End of journey 🙂

The last windows version I have been using on my pc was Windows 98.

iroylearner111

Staudey Thats a inspiring journey. I dont have deep linux knowledge so I post whatever issue I face and expert users help me out. By doing this if other noobies face similiar issues they can just help themsevesc easily finding those posts.

AlphaElwedritsch

SuSE Linux 4.4 was my first Linux in 1997.
Back then I bought it as a CD box
I still have a fax at home that I wrote to SuSE in Nuremberg about a support request for my printer (Fujitsu), which I couldn't get to work at the time.
It was still on thermal paper. I copied it at some point before the thermal paper was completely black.
I'm keeping the fax as a nice memory of that time.
Back then I could still write the support request in German 😉

Back then, it felt like I was resetting the system every day.
I had no idea about anything. But I always stayed on the ball.
It was great. But it's still great today 🙂

[It is not my Image. Found it here]

iroylearner111

stalebrim Explain yourself

SethStorm666

Damn, it's hot. There's no wind either and the air is 99% moist. 28 degrees Celsius. Can't think straight.

WetGeek

SethStorm666 Damn, it's hot.

OMG! Where are you?

SethStorm666

WetGeek

Denmark. It's rare we get over 25 in the summer. So when heat hits us, we're not used to it.

WetGeek

SethStorm666 It's rare we get over 25 in the summer.

Obviously that's Celcious. For those of us here in the backward US, it's 77 degrees F, a very mild summer. How hot is it now in Denmark? (It's currently 22 c. here in the US Pacific Northwest where I live.)

AlphaElwedritsch

We had 36 degrees Celsius today. South west of Germany. Not normal...

SethStorm666

WetGeek

It's now 26 Celsius and will drop to 15 Celsius along the night. Rain and thunder around midnight if the weather report is correct.

Bhibb

WetGeek Did the crazy heat spike not make it up to the Pacific Northwest? I'm down here in San Diego and it was pretty sweltering this last weekend!

Staudey

Yeah, it's been awful yesterday and today here in Upper Austria too. So humid. Forecast doesn't look good until at least Monday either.

But there was a tiny bit of surprise rainfall. Unfortunately it didn't cool the city down at all.

WetGeek

SethStorm666 It's now 26 Celsius

That's only about 79 degrees F, and it frequently is hotter than that here in the summer. We even get into the 90s (for two or three days) and even exceed 100 degrees rarely. And we're right next to Canada, eh. I think the difference may be the humidity. It's 47% here right now, and rarely exceeds the 40s.

When I was a boy in northern Ohio we often had 90 degree temps with 90% humidity, and that was brutal without air conditioning,

SethStorm666

As one who live with his cat. My cat (Findus) can relate to this meme.

SethStorm666

Apparently broken hearts was common ailment to die off in ye ol' days 😛

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