Guess i’m autistic lol. I did install Linux on my laptop when i was 12, but it didn’t last very long. The only reason i installed it is because i felt bored with the Windows UI, and distros like Ubuntu and Mint looked really interesting at the time. After i realized that i couldn’t get my EXEs to work i just went back to Windows lol.
It wasn’t until LTT made their video about using PopOS instead of Windows 11 back in 2021 that i remembered Linux even existed. I decided to give it a shot since Windows 10 had already started to freak me out for a while with their weird questions like asking if they can use my handwriting data. The rest is history. I know LTT gets a lot of flack for how they’ve handled their Linux content, and some of it is deserved, but if it wasn’t for me seeing that video i wouldn’t have given it a try.
About te UI… Well, graphical environments are independent of the distro most of the time, the only exception is when a distro has its own DE or WM hardcoded to it and won’t support anything else, as Mint, but even Cinnamon and MATE can be run on other distros
Yeah, i know these things now, but back then i just didn’t do any research and had no clue. Although i do remember trying wine, but i couldn’t get any games to work. I’m not sure if that was me being incompetent, or wine not being as good back then, probably a combination of both lol. This was like back in 2010 or something.
I’ve been into Linux on and off since around 2006… it was always cool, but kind of a pain in the ass to use. Until sometime around 2015-2020 or so we hit an inflection point and now linux is ready for primetime in a way it wasn’t before. Like when I first installed linux in 2006 it was like “yep… this sure is volunteer-made software (derogatory).” But it’s much better than it was.
At 12 I was not so interested in the features and mechanics of computers and OSs as to even have an opinion on the Windows UI, let alone consider other options. I was using AOL chat rooms and MSN Messenger, watching stupid flash videos on Newgrounds, and playing The Sims and Mech fighting games. I was in college studying Computer Science before I even gave a shit, and didn’t actually install Linux on my PC until I was in my mid 20s. So, from my perspective, you’re still an outlier.
Well when i talked about the UI it was honestly just very superficial. In a way of “oh i’m bored of this, but this other thing looks much different.” Basically monkey brain shit. It’s funny cause while i ended up going back to windows to be able to play games, my laptop was just a dual core celeron that could barely play anything anyway. I remember it often overheating and shutting down while i was playing sims 3 lol.
I somewhat managed to set up my own mail server on my PC when I was 14. It was unbelievably shitty, barely functional but I did learn a great deal and only wasted about a week of my life while gaining some trauma. After I realized I can send and receive some e-mails, I immediately reinstalled windows to play counter strike with my friends as I was becoming ostracized for constantly talking about POP3 at school. That was the episode that made me understand that I do not want to do computer science.
Guess i’m autistic lol. I did install Linux on my laptop when i was 12, but it didn’t last very long. The only reason i installed it is because i felt bored with the Windows UI, and distros like Ubuntu and Mint looked really interesting at the time. After i realized that i couldn’t get my EXEs to work i just went back to Windows lol.
It wasn’t until LTT made their video about using PopOS instead of Windows 11 back in 2021 that i remembered Linux even existed. I decided to give it a shot since Windows 10 had already started to freak me out for a while with their weird questions like asking if they can use my handwriting data. The rest is history. I know LTT gets a lot of flack for how they’ve handled their Linux content, and some of it is deserved, but if it wasn’t for me seeing that video i wouldn’t have given it a try.
Well, for the EXEs you just needed to use Wine.
About te UI… Well, graphical environments are independent of the distro most of the time, the only exception is when a distro has its own DE or WM hardcoded to it and won’t support anything else, as Mint, but even Cinnamon and MATE can be run on other distros
Yeah, i know these things now, but back then i just didn’t do any research and had no clue. Although i do remember trying wine, but i couldn’t get any games to work. I’m not sure if that was me being incompetent, or wine not being as good back then, probably a combination of both lol. This was like back in 2010 or something.
I’ve been into Linux on and off since around 2006… it was always cool, but kind of a pain in the ass to use. Until sometime around 2015-2020 or so we hit an inflection point and now linux is ready for primetime in a way it wasn’t before. Like when I first installed linux in 2006 it was like “yep… this sure is volunteer-made software (derogatory).” But it’s much better than it was.
Well, that’s fair.
As for Wine, I only managed to make Warcraft III to work, but not Minecraft or any other game. Wine needed so much tweaking back then.
Around the same time also.
At 12 I was not so interested in the features and mechanics of computers and OSs as to even have an opinion on the Windows UI, let alone consider other options. I was using AOL chat rooms and MSN Messenger, watching stupid flash videos on Newgrounds, and playing The Sims and Mech fighting games. I was in college studying Computer Science before I even gave a shit, and didn’t actually install Linux on my PC until I was in my mid 20s. So, from my perspective, you’re still an outlier.
Well when i talked about the UI it was honestly just very superficial. In a way of “oh i’m bored of this, but this other thing looks much different.” Basically monkey brain shit. It’s funny cause while i ended up going back to windows to be able to play games, my laptop was just a dual core celeron that could barely play anything anyway. I remember it often overheating and shutting down while i was playing sims 3 lol.
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I somewhat managed to set up my own mail server on my PC when I was 14. It was unbelievably shitty, barely functional but I did learn a great deal and only wasted about a week of my life while gaining some trauma. After I realized I can send and receive some e-mails, I immediately reinstalled windows to play counter strike with my friends as I was becoming ostracized for constantly talking about POP3 at school. That was the episode that made me understand that I do not want to do computer science.