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1. Quad (quad@masto.quad.moe)'s status on Monday, 26-Mar-2018 21:02:24 UTC Quad

   TIL there was a version of The Sims for Mandrake linux. Bundled even.

   tfw AAA titles paid more attention to linux in 2001 than now

   tfw 2001 might have been the true year of the linux desktop.

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   • Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED] (espectalll@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Mar-2018 21:05:45 UTC Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED]

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     @quad Back in 2001, you also had Caldera OpenLinux bundled with StarOffice and WordPerfect along with commercial support, wrapped up in a nice KDE and an easy-to-use installer, at a time when "Linux" and "Internet" where nice buzz words which mixed together nicely just as "GNU" and "slash". And companies such as Intel even built computers with Linux preloaded.

     Yeah, 2001 was likely to become the year of the Linux desktop - if it weren't for the dot com bubble.

   • Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED] (espectalll@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Mar-2018 21:06:12 UTC Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED]

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     @quad Back in 2001, you also had Caldera OpenLinux bundled with StarOffice and WordPerfect along with commercial support, wrapped up in a nice KDE and an easy-to-use installer, at a time when "Linux" and "Internet" were nice buzz words which mixed together nicely just as "GNU" and "slash". And companies such as Intel even built computers with Linux preloaded.

     Yeah, 2001 was likely to become the year of the Linux desktop - if it weren't for the dot com bubble.