| Luna_UK | morning | 01:15 |
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| zxmpi | o/ | 04:47 |
| Luna_UK | \o | 05:00 |
| Luna_UK | Happy 20 years to Ubuntu | 07:36 |
| zxmpi | have been using it since first launched but i suspect when i get my next pc or laptop i might try a different distro as i hate snap that much | 07:37 |
| Luna_UK | i have used it since 7.04 or 7.10 | 07:42 |
| Luna_UK | got a CD from Shipit from an old classmate when i had problems with ATI drivers on openSUSE as i changed from an NVIDIA to an Ati GPU card | 07:42 |
| zxmpi | i will probably scurry back after trying other distros but might be time to have a proper look and try of other distros | 07:43 |
| zxmpi | i found a case for 5 while clearing out last year :-) | 07:43 |
| davef | zxmpi: if you want kinda a ubuntu experience without snap, Pop!_OS works very nicely. it's been my go to for desktop use. | 13:41 |
| zxmpi | kinda have slackware on my radar with the intention to give it a spin when i have some new hardware to linux up. but will add popos to the list. | 13:41 |
| davef | pop is maintained by the System76 laptop people | 13:42 |
| davef | i've not touched slackware in forever | 13:43 |
| davef | i remember it in the 90s, installing from floppy disk | 13:43 |
| penguin42 | yeh same here | 13:43 |
| zxmpi | floppy disk... singular? :-P | 13:46 |
| davef | probably 2 or 3 floppies.. i forget | 13:47 |
| davef | by the late 90s i found Coral Linux .. i ran that until it was discontinued | 13:47 |
| davef | around that time Coral Linux was the one that "just worked" for me, but it sucked that most 3rd party binary software wouldn't run. If all you needed was a browser, email and productivity, it was fine (and that's all I needed then) | 13:50 |
| * penguin42 thought he bought slackware home on a few boxes of floppies | 13:50 | |
| davef | oh, you just unlocked a memory. yes.. i remember seeing a boxed copy of slack. it contained something like 20 floppies | 13:51 |
| davef | more than Windows 95 on floppy if I recall lol | 13:51 |
| davef | and you haven't lived until you've installed Windows 95 from floppy disk | 13:52 |
| zxmpi | did that twice. i've lived life to the fullest :-D | 14:10 |
| zxmpi | win95 was 26 floppies iirc. and once the disks were used once they were unreadable. they used a wacky >1.44mb format that made them twitchy | 14:11 |
| zxmpi | the experience thought me to install cd roms anywhere. my ultimate install was a peer to peer install from dos sharing a cd-rom from a different system on the system installing windows :-) | 14:12 |
| davef | i remember the horrible format, it registered as 1.7MB or something if I recall. making copies of the disks was difficult, but not impossible. | 14:22 |
| zxmpi | it was the last time i installed an os from floppy | 14:48 |
| zxmpi | cd then dvd then usb drives. some of those early cd drives were very slow mind | 14:49 |
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