> Are you sure about that? At that time, hard drives were constantly spinning. Getting them to suspend was a rare feat.
I am pretty sure, though, of course, memory is highly fallible (and note that I was a kid back then, and didn't understand that well what those sounds or the blinking disk light actually meant).
> 20 years ago, Windows 98 had long been abandoned. At that time I had been running a Linux desktop for many years already.
20 years ago means the mid-to-late nineties. That's my position and I'm sticking with it /s
But I think it's undeniable that Linux in the 2000s was a massive pain for anyone but the most dedicated tinker, and even then only for pretty carefully chosen hardware. The Year of the Linux Desktop meme existed for a very clear reason. Virtually the entire PC user base, both Consumer and Corporate, was running Windows XP in the 2000s.
I am pretty sure, though, of course, memory is highly fallible (and note that I was a kid back then, and didn't understand that well what those sounds or the blinking disk light actually meant).
> 20 years ago, Windows 98 had long been abandoned. At that time I had been running a Linux desktop for many years already.
20 years ago means the mid-to-late nineties. That's my position and I'm sticking with it /s
But I think it's undeniable that Linux in the 2000s was a massive pain for anyone but the most dedicated tinker, and even then only for pretty carefully chosen hardware. The Year of the Linux Desktop meme existed for a very clear reason. Virtually the entire PC user base, both Consumer and Corporate, was running Windows XP in the 2000s.