Like others, I remember when they were the new exciting upcoming distro. Though Fedora was my main daily driver at the time, I test drove 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) - it came with a video of Nelson Mandela (unless I’m embarrassingly misremembering), I still have the CD somewhere.
I ended up eventually using the LTS’s 6.06 (Dapper Drake), 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for a lot of things, good memories, until eventually falling out with them over Unity and the Amazon thing.
I installed GDebi from the store and used that. But the snap store use to let you use the store to install the local deb file. To be more user friendly, I hope they make this work again.
I have installed things with the CLI but like a GUI better.
Very cool! Keep that. It’s a piece of history now.
When I was young and fucked up my Windows XP with viruses and toolbars and viruses for my toolbars, I downloaded Ubuntu and burnt it onto a spare CD. Wrote “software of the gods” since I was able to grab all my windows files and transfer them to USB with that live cd. Felt like a true hacker man.
Dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04 on my parents desktop.
I broke the boot loader so many times that my mom learned what GRUB was just so she was sure she could yell at me and it wasn’t just our ancient desktop finally dying.
I miss the days of Ubuntu being a new upstart and Mark Shuttleworth going into space and being cool. I was involved with the project a bunch back then and even talked to him briefly once online.
There’s been a lot of poor decisions honestly since then unfortunately and I haven’t used Ubuntu in a while.
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