As someone who actually used desktop Linux back then it was damned annoying to get flash working, not to mention the nightmare of WiFi…
You also needed to download a third party pack of software to play MP3s, and I remember being pissed off at Linux back in 2009 when it hadn’t downloaded libdvdcss when I had installed VLC before going on a trip, and VLC refused to play a few DVDs I had brought with me.
I would say that Linux became significantly simpler sometime around 2018 or so.
Yeah I don’t think I would’ve been using it in 2004, though Ubuntu was going strong in my university physics department in 2006. I found Linux working really efficiently 2020-ish and I don’t have a single windows system now.
Daily reminder that Linux is a very simple alternative since 2004 (thanks
ObamaUbuntu) and you don’t need Windows anymore unless you use it at work.Linux was not a simple alternative back in 2004.
As someone who actually used desktop Linux back then it was damned annoying to get flash working, not to mention the nightmare of WiFi…
You also needed to download a third party pack of software to play MP3s, and I remember being pissed off at Linux back in 2009 when it hadn’t downloaded libdvdcss when I had installed VLC before going on a trip, and VLC refused to play a few DVDs I had brought with me.
I would say that Linux became significantly simpler sometime around 2018 or so.
Yeah I don’t think I would’ve been using it in 2004, though Ubuntu was going strong in my university physics department in 2006. I found Linux working really efficiently 2020-ish and I don’t have a single windows system now.