Petit Coeur<p>The first <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> distro I used was <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a>, back in 1997, with a 2.0 kernel. I briefly tried <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/redhat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redhat</span></a> but disliked its windows 95 aspect.</p><p>At that time I often had to compile software (or try to), there was always a missing library, or a version mismatch, or a different compiler / glibc version needed, and so on.</p><p>I've used Window Maker (based on the nextstep look) for a long time, until I had to use the windows installation provided by the company. I don't remember why I stopped using Linux at home.</p><p>In 2017 I tried several distros, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ubuntu</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/elementaryos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elementaryos</span></a>, used <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> for a while, often had drivers issues. Last year I installed <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arch</span></a> on a "old" laptop that could not receive <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows11</span></a>, and I was very surprised to have no driver issue at all (except one thing : I've stopped trying to make the hybrid nvidia card working).</p><p>I also have a M1 mac mini (16g), a very pleasant machine, but I find <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> a little bloated, the ram used when you've just started the machine is a little high for my taste.</p><p>A thing I like in the macos UI is the top menu, reminding me the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> workbench. I hate each window having its own menu (and I hate the buttons being on the right side of the window), happily in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnome</span></a> that's easy to modify.</p><p>For hacking (in its original sense), nothing better than linux though.</p><p>That's all for now, I wanted to share a little bit of some of my computer history 🙂 thanks for reading.</p>