Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 21:59:17

 Sp>  bo> I actually new nothing about the "Free Software" movement and GNU and
 Sp>  bo> Source when I first installed Linux.  I knew I wanted to try it, beca
 Sp>  bo> didn't like windows, and I wanted something I could configure, could 
 Sp>  bo> under-the-hood, was fast, stable and could make my own.
 Sp> 
 Sp> All the way back at Slak 1.0 it was quite funny trying to see people get
 Sp> their heads around Linux being an entirely different operating system. 
 Sp> It'd be nothing to get the question but what version of DOS is that. It
 Sp> wasn't super useful for anything back then save networking but it was a
 Sp> complete paradigm shift.
 Sp> 

For someone who had only realy used DOS and Windows up until 98, it was quite a paradigm shift to see multitasking and networking on the command line, in text mode, and the filesystem, no drive letters and long filenames natively supported.

Things I assumed were fundamental about PC's, weren't.

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