1 yr. ago • 96%

Found this blast from the past (2015) on an old hard drive

I was 11 when I took this screenshot - Ubuntu 14.04 running on my very first (incredibly bad) PC. As I recall, I couldn't install Windows 7 without a DVD drive, and that was out of my budget :p

Pretty sure I had it riced out with the Compiz cube and everything.

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I’m not joking when I say that the compiz cube was the reason I got into Linux back in the day. In hindsight, it was just a neat graphical gimmick, but it was enough to spark my lifelong love for free software.

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- The cube? Not wobbly windows, or the fire screensaver? I guess it takes all sorts... ;)
  
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  Wobbly windows was when computing peaked. It's been downhill ever since.
  
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- Yeah the same nudged my sister to switch over, and she still is on GNU/Linux to this day.
  
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I thought I was super hot sht when someone was over and I'd spin my 2 screen wobbly cube around or do my pages around like wavy sheets of paper 🤣

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Ah, I miss Unity so much. To this day I still can't get over how useful the HUD was and really don't know why no one else implemented it.

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- Also miss it. I took a couple of years to warm up to it. Then when started to I really really like it, it went downwards.
  
  I‘ve actually stopped using Unity a few month before Canonical abandoned it because with all the Gnome applications moving into a completly different direction it didn‘t feel consistent at all anymore.
  
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- To this day no DE does Global Menu/Window Buttons integrated in the panel as well as Unity.
  Not even KDE.
  
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  Exactly. Mate tried emulating this behaviour, but it wasn't very successful.
  
  As far as I know Ubuntu had to patch a lot of packages to make it work properly. I guess no one has the manpower to do that for such a niche feature.
  
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I couldn't make Windows Vista work on my laptop I spent almost a year saving for. I've been on Linux full time since. Thanks Ballmer!

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- Proof the bald dude did something right in his life.
  
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I had a live linux USB with Zorin, all set up with funky compiz cube animations and stuff. The casper-rw file always kept getting corrupted though and repairing it was a pain for me back then. That thing was what got me interested in Linux over a decade ago, I think I still have an image of it somewhere...

Then the RPi came along and sealed the deal. From that point on, I've always had a linux machine, up to now where my daily driver laptop runs Linux

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Oh that is so so cool

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I smelled gnome a mile away 😂😂

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- Well you should check your nose because that was Unity
  
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