Oh wow, that was my first Linux desktop
Same but I didn't try it until it was already renamed to Linspire. First heard* about it when The Screen Savers discussed Microsoft suing them over the *indows part of the name on TechTV.
Miss that channel so much. I was pissed the fuck off when G4 came out of nowhere, bought out the channel and turned it into a Mountain Dew and Doritos network for edgy gamers. Attack of the Show was okay, though. But it was nowhere near is good as TSS was. *sigh*
I love how the skyline looks like a couple skylines of that era that don’t look that way now. What city is that?
San Diego
Thanks!
Purportedly 2024.
@Sinclair-Speccy That's such a bad Operating System, really bad. Poor features,buggy as hell.
Must really have been super shit if you remember how awful it was 20+ years later
Anything in particular that sent you over the edge?
I'm not that person, but most smaller distros back that weren't the major ones (RedHat, Suse, Mandrake) had issues. Driver support from distro to distro was also very spotty, I remember having to hunt through three of them in 2002 to finally get one to recognize my Ethernet chipset. Yes, Ethernet, not Wifi, which would have been understandable.
@tourist I tried it back in the time and it didn't really work well. It was just a pain. None of the hardware I owned worked well enough. Graphics card only VESA mode, lack of compatibility issues, Wine was crappy at the time, a better approach was SuSE Linux which was the start for me to dive into the Linux world. Since then I took the hard tour and enjoyed playing around with SuSE on a second partition. Nowadays I use Linux only, except for company's PC at the office, there I'm bound to Win.
@tourist See this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K9LjvXKA0DM&feature=shared 12:42
Its gimmick was that it was compatible with Windows apps, and an easy transition for Windows users. It didn't really live up to that promise. Wine was not nearly as mature then as it is today, and even today it would be pretty bold to present any Linux distro as being Windows-compatible.
@GenderNeutralBro Instead of being Windows compatible: Microsoft 365 is Linux compatible (They have MS Edge on Linux and everything is running in a web app), so for me there is no need to use Windows ever again. What is it that you really need to use Windows? I think 90% of normal users could deal with Linux nowadays.
Sounds like Windows.
Microsoft sued Lindows because it was too similar to Windows (and lost)
I don't think that. Yes, only one letter is different. Yes, both are operating systems for PC. Yes the UI somewhat looks similar. But I think even the average joe would be baffled by your statement (because they think it is Windows).
Everything runs as root.
Yikes.
Wait, didn’t they have a super weird/catchy song about Lindows back then? Or am I confusing it with the Perpendicular song, when HDD manufacturers switched to this technology?
And this was the other song from Hitachi.
There you go, but it was Linspire already: https://piped.video/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ%3Fsi%3DtW7VM1MY1DFBB2BB&t=4
To this day, I love to suggest my tech friend switch to Lindows as a joke. Still kills if they get it, otherwise I have to explain "so it's this old Linux distribution..."
A distro used by Walmart because they were too cheap to pay for windows.
Lindows is literally an insult in linux spaces.
The name Lindows sounds like someone made a joke what would happen if Microsoft released a Linux distribution. (just referring to the name)
At one point this is so hyped that makes me want to try it.
I remember their "1 Click Install"
