DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes

[erikarn@mstdn.social]

@nina_kali_nina oh god this is hitting me with netscape 4 memories aieeee

[maxxcan@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina I love this. This is my teenage

[hackbyte@joinfriendica.de]

Heh .. ironically, Gnome 1 was actually pretty usable....

Nowadays, one has to resort to lxqt or xfce... meh. ;)

[crzwdjk@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina Ah the good old GNU Network Object Model Environment

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@nina_kali_nina Ah, X desktops in the 90s. When everyone was sure virtual desktops needed a visual map.

All this needs is Netscape Navigator, XMMS, and maybe a GNUtella client to complete the vibe.

[everythingalsocan@techhub.social]

@nina_kali_nina Gnome 1 was around the time when I switched from dual booting OS/2 and Linux to using Linux full time. Gnome looked like it would soon match the Workplace Shell. (Took me almost two decades to give up on that hope.)

[elb@social.sdf.org]

@bytex64 In the mid 90s I used that visual map a LOT. I was running fvwm on a monitor that could only choke out 800x600, with a virtual framebuffer of 1024x768 (helloooo 1 MB graphics memory!), and four virtual desktops. The real advantage was that I could manipulate the windows on the visual map, so I could move windows between desktops/etc., which was a little bit awkward otherwise. Then, virtual desktops were often not discrete, windows could "fall off" of one onto another.

@nina_kali_nina

[aparrish@friend.camp]

@nina_kali_nina this is computers, to me

[zeitkunst@post.lurk.org]

@aparrish @nina_kali_nina same. That foot (?) icon! Memories of borking my absolutely-needed-to-work-for-college Gateway desktop trying to get my partitions correct.