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Topic: OT - Weird History

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Gigem

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5810 on: Today at 07:03:19 PM »
Eh. Win 2000 was awesome compared to Win 98. Admittedly 98 was better than 95, and both ME and 8 sucked.

But by the time you got to about 2010-2015, then the optimal solution was to leave Windows and go to Linux.
I do know in the late 90's a lot of people were using Windows NT around campus ( I was in college) but I never really understood the differences.  I vaguely understand that NT was supposed to be for networking and more corporate environments.  I did use NT some in that time, but mostly at school.  As I recall, it had a different file system, but I really don't know what the differences were.  

Astonishingly, I've never used Linux, but I've always wanted to try.  

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5811 on: Today at 07:21:10 PM »
Astonishingly, I've never used Linux, but I've always wanted to try. 
If you're old enough to have been computing in the command-line era of MS-DOS, Linux isn't anything crazy. 

The big knock on Linux a while ago is that it wasn't "user-friendly" meaning that it didn't have simple and easy graphical ways to configure various settings/etc. It's gotten MUCH better for that. But if something isn't available via a GUI, anyone who has experience using the command line can pretty much do whatever you need that way. 

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5812 on: Today at 08:45:37 PM »
If you're old enough to have been computing in the command-line era of MS-DOS, Linux isn't anything crazy.

The big knock on Linux a while ago is that it wasn't "user-friendly" meaning that it didn't have simple and easy graphical ways to configure various settings/etc. It's gotten MUCH better for that. But if something isn't available via a GUI, anyone who has experience using the command line can pretty much do whatever you need that way.
I’m this old. 

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