I was the opposite! Back in the year 2000 I was reading PC World and wishing that I would have the brains to one day assemble my own rig. I finally did it in 2021, even with off-the-shelf parts (SCARY as I-don't-know-what!). A friend came to watch me build it. It felt great starting it up! - ThreadSky

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l0n3w0lf.bsky.social • 8 days ago

I was the opposite! Back in the year 2000 I was reading PC World and wishing that I would have the brains to one day assemble my own rig. I finally did it in 2021, even with off-the-shelf parts (SCARY as I-don't-know-what!). A friend came to watch me build it. It felt great starting it up!

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crackerjackson.bsky.social•8 days ago

I remember always loving playing around with ram and HDD upgrades but I always ALWAYS hated motherboards. I mean... Bus? bus what? Piss off with that and take my upgrades dammit!

l0n3w0lf.bsky.social•8 days ago

I gained experience with internal hardware cleaning and replacing parts in my extended family's machines. But my favorite was when I bought a 2009 Mac mini and pried it open to replace the HDD and upgrade the RAM. Having a Mac that didn't melt while playing Counter-Strike Source was so good.

crackerjackson.bsky.social•8 days ago

Back to software. My first foray into Linux I believe was 2003. I never could code and the linux community was fiercely nerd-jerkish at the time. You had to be very careful asking questions. Someone would always pop off and yell at you to "JUST GO BACK TO WINDOWS!" So good support was hard to find.

crackerjackson.bsky.social•8 days ago

My first distro was either Lindows or Mandrake. Both now defunct. But Lindows was coming out of the box trying to be windows user friendly and kind of is like most distros today. With a software center to download from.

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