Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1982 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 13:56 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, 2008-11-18 at 07:57 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> >
> > > Seriously though: was it ever really only for nerds? :)
> > When I first installed SuSE, it took me perhaps a week to get graphics 
> > working, a month to get good graphics. It had to be configured by hand, 
> > sax was not yet invented or was too primitive (SuSE 5.2).
> >
> > Not many users would have endured that entry learning curve!
>
> I was joking. You at least had graphics... <cue violins> In my day, we
> had to do the graphics before dawn on an empty stomach. In the winter we
> often had no shoes and had to fight the wolves to get the network
> working. Linux users today don't know how easy they have it. They have
> it too easy. No character building ;) ;)

You forgot to mention you had to walk 10 miles to school and it was 
uphill both ways.  ;-)

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