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| From | rbowman <bowman@montana.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? |
| Date | 2025-07-04 23:12 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <mcr5e0F2dvgU8@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 04 Jul 2025 21:12:17 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > I don't know when you installed it for the first time, so I can't speak > about it. But When I installed it for the first time in 1995, there was > only slackware available for me and it was way more difficult than > today. > Even a distro like archlinux, which is claim to be difficult to install, > is very easy compared with the issues I had at the time. I had no > Internet help, only lot of HOWTO and README files. iirc, the first step with Slackware was downloading and burning a slew of diskettes, 40 odd iirc if you wanted a development environment with gcc and the buildtools.
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Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-07-04 21:12 +0000
Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-04 23:12 +0000
Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2025-07-05 18:35 +0200
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