Toxicant wrote on February 24, 2021 at 1:29 AM

That will be my final push to switch to linux

Rambler OP wrote on February 24, 2021 at 2:11 AM

Never too late to adopt. Widows XP sp3 was the last Windows OS I've ran, and haven't looked back since. Though I'll admit that I like simple desktop environments like MATE and XFCE to replicate the classic and familiar navigation that I grew used to from Windows NT 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and XP.

For newcomers you can't really go wrong with something like Pop_OS, Ubuntu or Mint. They seem to have good support and are really new-user friendly communities behind them.

Toxicant wrote on February 26, 2021 at 12:46 AM

i have a on again off again relation with Mint.

Kalchaya wrote on February 28, 2021 at 2:26 AM

Try MX Linux:

https://mxlinux.org/manuals/

https://forum.mxlinux.org/

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=FFrG7FAeQ-A

I found it to have slightly more intuitive layout than Linux Mint, which required less searching to find what I needed. For example, I was easily able to figure out how to ditch the gawd-awful Firefox, and replace it with Waterfox...I have yet to successfully do the same in Linux Mint.

Toxicant wrote on March 1, 2021 at 6:08 PM

I'll have to check those out.

Wahaha wrote on February 24, 2021 at 10:53 AM

Did you skip Win98 or how did that abomination not manage to push you away to Linux?

Rambler OP wrote on February 24, 2021 at 1:36 PM

I was young and was probably running Win98 with the Yahoo! and Ask! toolbars, with a cool Comet Cursor so I could update my Angelfire site while downloading over Napster. Using Yahoo, MSN and ICQ messengers to connect with my friends from school.

But I could play Age Of Empires and Quake, so that's all I really cared about.

Wahaha wrote on February 24, 2021 at 3:34 PM

I think at the time MSN and ICQ were a thing that existed, Win98 was already obsolete. But I could remember wrong.

As far as I remember, Win98 wasn't even capable of connecting to the Internet out of the box.