Oh wow, that was my first Linux desktop
Same but I didn’t try it until it was already renamed to Linspire. First heard* about it when The Screen Savers discussed Microsoft suing them over the *indows part of the name on TechTV.
Miss that channel so much. I was pissed the fuck off when G4 came out of nowhere, bought out the channel and turned it into a Mountain Dew and Doritos network for edgy gamers. Attack of the Show was okay, though. But it was nowhere near is good as TSS was. *sigh*
At one point this is so hyped that makes me want to try it.
I love how the skyline looks like a couple skylines of that era that don’t look that way now. What city is that?
San Diego
Thanks!
Purportedly 2024.
Wait, didn’t they have a super weird/catchy song about Lindows back then? Or am I confusing it with the Perpendicular song, when HDD manufacturers switched to this technology?
And this was the other song from Hitachi.
There you go, but it was Linspire already: https://piped.video/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ%3Fsi%3DtW7VM1MY1DFBB2BB&t=4
The name Lindows sounds like someone made a joke what would happen if Microsoft released a Linux distribution. (just referring to the name)
To this day, I love to suggest my tech friend switch to Lindows as a joke. Still kills if they get it, otherwise I have to explain “so it’s this old Linux distribution…”
A distro used by Walmart because they were too cheap to pay for windows.
@Sinclair-Speccy That’s such a bad Operating System, really bad. Poor features,buggy as hell.
Must really have been super shit if you remember how awful it was 20+ years later
Anything in particular that sent you over the edge?
Its gimmick was that it was compatible with Windows apps, and an easy transition for Windows users. It didn’t really live up to that promise. Wine was not nearly as mature then as it is today, and even today it would be pretty bold to present any Linux distro as being Windows-compatible.
Lindows is literally an insult in linux spaces.
I remember their “1 Click Install”
