[ale] [ALE] OT Sort of

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I'm proud to wear the title of Geezer!
Btw... Linux Mint FTW!

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:05 PM David Jackson via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> > Many of us, wear white beards, know the pain.
>
> I am so glad to have so many Linux geezers around here.  My first install
> was Slackware 3.0 in 1996 on a 386(?).  Needed a kernel recompile just to
> hear sound on the sound blaster card and get the CD-ROM to work.  I never
> did get X to work on that machine under Slack.  XFree86 simply couldn't
> support my Matrox video card.  The first time I saw X running (with good
> ol' fvwm and WindowMaker and Afterstep) was with Red Hat 3.0.3, which
> included the Metro-X server, which *did* support that video card.
> Waaaaaaaay cool.  I gradually moved away from OS2 Warp after that.
> Although Warp 4 was pretty spiffy looking.  Anyway, I used Slackware for
> many many years as my daily driver.  Imagine my surprise when I started
> trying Ubuntu and Debian in the early 2010's!  Worlds apart!
>
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 12:32 PM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone remember back in the day when you want to use Gnome you had
>> to install ICEWM?
>>
>> Staying up late to compile WindowMaker for 4 hours with the latest Xorg.
>>
>> Or compiling Linux Kernel so you can use an audio card or graphic card?
>>
>> Or changing your shell from sh to bash.
>>
>> Kids today don't know the pain.
>>
>> I tried to explain to my 16 years today Linux so easy to use, but there
>> was a time you would sit and eat pizza and drink beer while praying to the
>> compiler Gods that the new kernel you compiled does crap out, Or waking up
>> to find out you were missing on a library that cause you to want to scream
>> at the sky for wasting a weekend trying to compile.
>>
>> I even fired up WindowMaker to show what we had back in the day thought
>> it was cool, that it was the Winowmager we used with Xorg and the pain we
>> had to do get X working.
>>
>> That when KDE came along was so cool but was so heavy to use. Gnome
>> wasn't a real WindowManger because you had to install something IceWM to
>> use.
>>
>> Hell, even the shells kids are using make life simple, have you played
>> with ZSH. So pretty and easy to use, ugh. They need to feel the pain of sh
>> and even worse tcsh.
>>
>> Many of us, wear white beards, know the pain.
>>
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