• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    4 months ago

    Multiple desktops, 1999. What an amazing feature.

    A quick web search suggests that macOS (then OS X) got this in 2007 (“Spaces”), and Windows not until 2015.

    This alone makes this GUI more functional IMHO.

    • XTL@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Most Unix systems had it in CDE, 1993. Most also had it in whatever came before.

      The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000, released in 1985.

      The first implementation of virtual desktops for Unix was vtwm in 1990.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

      It had been the expected default for pretty much an entire decade. Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll. Not sure if anyone really liked using that.

  • hollyberries@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Ooh damn. Mandrake was my first distro, I remember being sooo excited when the CDs came in the mail. It was I think 4 discs?

    The experience was absolutely not good lol. At the time I only had one computer (some eMachines something or other) and a 56k line that only went to 14400 or 2600 baud depending on the weather. My NIC wasn’t supported and after some banging my head on the desk I ended up going back to windows 98se after a few days because it was the family computer I messed up and caught sooo much flak for wiping.

    Returned some years later when it was called Mandriva and had a better experience with a custom built AMD machine. The eMachines machine by then was still around as a network file server running a flavour of BSD that served media to my OG xbox played through XBMC (now Kodi).

    Great post OP and thanks for the trip down memory lane!