<html><head></head><body>+<><> (closest I could get infinity)<br><br>First running X session took nearly a month of gently tweaking mode lines to not blow up the fly back transformer in my new 15" color monitor.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 2, 2021 12:32:31 PM EDT, Chuck Payne via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Does anyone remember back in the day when you want to use Gnome you had to install ICEWM? <br><br><div>Staying up late to compile WindowMaker for 4 hours with the latest Xorg.<br><br>Or compiling Linux Kernel so you can use an audio card or graphic card? <br><br>Or changing your shell from sh to bash. <br><br>Kids today don't know the pain. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br>Many of us, wear white beards, know the pain. <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Terror PUP a.k.a<br>Chuck "PUP" Payne<br>-----------------------------------------<br>Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux.<br>-----------------------------------------<br>openSUSE -- Terrorpup<br>openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member<br>skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup<br>freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein<br>Register Linux Userid: 155363<br> <br>openSUSE Community Member since 2008. </div></div></div></div></div></div>
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