Yeah that's right kid. Back in the day I had a hard drive that was on /dev/hda1
Not even /dev/sda1 I said hda that's right
I remember those days
Grub???? I used LILO
Installed Slackware from a box of floppies on a spare 486
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@cwebber Hah I forgot about LILO! I still remember my first long term Linux distro was running Linux 2.4, and I was very excited to build my own Linux 2.6 kernel from source when it was released.
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My earliest Linux experience was probably SLS. I distinctly remember installing it on my work computer in frustration because Windows 3.1 (with a network stack from FTP Software (not to be confused with the ftp program or protocol)) kept crashing whenever the company network was too busy (like whenever a critical release deadline was approaching). 1/2
@cwebber oof got me right in the LI
@cwebber i will say, hda2 is far better then nvme0n1p2
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Ouch, do I remember LI... argh...
@cwebber I had a couple of boxes that I couldn't lilo, so I was running loadlin
@cwebber im exactly this old
@cwebber I remember LILO. I remember installing Slackware not on a spare 486 but on my one and only 486, in a dual-boot config with MS-DOS 6.2 on the other partition.
@cwebber Heh, reminds me that my first own computer had a second-hand SCSI HDD, so would be /dev/sda1
@cwebber I determined how successful my install attempt was by counting the number of letters LILO printed to the screen.
A shoebox of floppies. It had to be a shoebox. That was the only way you were allowed to keep them
@cwebber We always had Flip'N'File™ boxes...
Livin' the high life, I guess.
I'm telling you, Windowmaker was *the shit*. It still is. It still is
@cwebber ran it for years, rock solid, I abandoned it for the conveniences of KDE but I do miss it
Do you remember that StumpWM video with the person with the incredibly deep voice named "male" pronounced mah-lay
Because I remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKt_rVO960Q
@cwebber That's pretty cool, i see a lot of similarities with how i have been using i3wm then Sway for the last decade and a half, though of course there are important differences, but i do use named groups/workspaces and use rofi to switch to one or move a window to one. Though it doesn't really do the "empty space" thing as far as i know (windows/groups will take all the available space), but i never really wanted that. You might have tried it and maybe didn't like it, but if you didn't, i would encourage you, it's very good.
@cwebber I saw the background (which could be straight out of Hackers honestly) before the preview image loaded, friend
@cwebber this reminds me of vimperator / vimium
it's not a full window manager but you can browse using vim key bindings / no mouse
Vimium - The Hacker's Browser
YouTube
wow what the fuck every version of this video I find is unplayable
Okay found one semi tolerable
God do I miss StumpWM. LORD do I miss it.
@cwebber I'd prefer Widowmaker instead
@cwebber I ain't remember shit about LILO except that sinking feeling of it stopping at LI because it failed.
And then the last time this came up learning and how it writes each letter to the when to indicate progress and it's actually possible for it to fail at the other two ones it's just LI was the most common?