it's so true

...rofl I mean...

of course it moved to BSKY.

this person clearly doesn't know about the birth of Linux

...howso?

there's a running joke in compsci that Linux wouldn't exist if so many people didn't hate Windows

oh, lol, that. I thought you were referencing the pumpkins-and-basketball-hoop image and was just so confused... XD

oh lol

nah it was the first one

I'm pretty sure Linux exists because there was no i386 version of Minix.

.....suddenly finding myself nostalgic for that old 386 PC from way back when. damn....

300-someodd MB hard drive, 5" and later a 3" floppy drive, MS DOS, Win 3.1.... god, I learned to write .bat files on that thing back in early grade school....

Karinu: I mean that's why it got started but it's arguably not how it got popular

I was still stuck on an IBM XT (8088) clone running DOS 3.3 when I first started experimenting on Slackware at a friend's house; they were hoping to figure out how to set up an ISP. There was a time when that minimum 386 requirement seemed like a real hassle.

(Eventually got a 586 Pentium-MMX that became my own Internet Server project for years, but that took a while.)