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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 02:57:31 JST alcinnz

   20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 2) - Ploum:
   https://ploum.net/2024-12-16-linux_desktop2.html

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     Rigo Wenning (rigo@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 06:23:24 JST Rigo Wenning

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     @alcinnz the report starts where it became really easy. Suddenly all the buttons on my laptop worked. Starting with Ubuntu misses the real smart parts. Namely that the integration of Internet and Desktop is an invention of NEXT and then was taken up by KDE 1.1!

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 06:23:38 JST alcinnz

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     • Rigo Wenning

     @rigo Well, this is a Part 2...

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     Rigo Wenning (rigo@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 06:32:00 JST Rigo Wenning

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     @alcinnz looked at part 1, I mean woody was really advanced. Ok, it was maintained until 2015 or so 😁 . I started with the jurix distribution, which had a very nice custom X-Windows system. Later, we used fvwm and then the first versions of KDE. Note that I was in the legal department of the University 😇

     Producing legal texts with latex was a lot of fun, but not very well recognized.

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     серафими многоꙮчитїи (djm62@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 08:02:06 JST серафими многоꙮчитїи

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     @alcinnz I remember those CDs getting mailed out, although what I remember about installation and usability getting better was the switch from 2.2 to 2.4 kernels, and dynamically loadable modules. I remember the nude wallpapers too, but I think they have officially disappeared : I recently spent a predictably disappointing evening trying to get the search engines to show me variations on "naked linux people wallpaper".

     Community made a big difference : I had used Red Hat and Debian, and I remember what you would now call fossbro vibes in the irc for Debian. The software was literally magic but the community wasn't welcoming.