Five years ago, I jumped cold turkey in GNU/Linux waters and haven't looked back since. I used an old HP laptop with Arch+i3wm.
Today I wanted to play some good old Diablo 2 on my old man's desktop...... and I almost cried when I turned it on. I haven't used Windows for so fucking long. I miss it. I miss how comfy everything was on my huge ass CRT screen, I miss the whirling of the tower fan, I miss the clunking of the keyboard. The way I have to use mouse for everything, the way I have to wait a few seconds for every single thing I want to do... It makes me wanna go back. I fucking miss Windows.
I even miss the fucking games. How do you guys deal with Windows nostalgia? (gnu/lenix users only - winblow fags gtfo)
Anthony Wood
>I fucking miss Windows. no you don't
what you miss is being yonger
the nostalgia you feel is the realization you wasted years and won't get them back
Hunter Scott
I miss MS-DOS
Alexander Evans
>realization not consciously of course. that's why it's a feeling
plus a laptop with gnome-shell is much comfier than your nasty old noisy tower and cancer inducing monitor
Brody Kelly
y tho
ms-dos was the pinnacle of autism and unusability (except for oldie games i luv those)
Benjamin White
When you actually need to use Windows for more than a few minutes, you'll remember why you left.
Brayden Garcia
Aw yeah Tweaking your combination of config.sys, autoexec.bat and QEMM to get that magic 624KB of conventional memory. Good times. *wipes tear*
John Hall
I really want to move to linux, but I need Nvidia Control Panel in order to prevent my TV from cropping the screen.
Ayden Ross
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Jordan Gonzalez
I've got the control panel on arch
Mason Harris
Your TV doesn't have an overscan setting? Must be a shit TV.
Jonathan Thomas
It's from some literallywho company called Telefunken.
Hudson Peterson
The nvidia control panel on Linux can set underscan
Julian Gonzalez
I don't have a Control Panel at all, instead I have Nvidia X server settings or something like that.
Benjamin Rivera
that's what its called
Asher Roberts
u dont miss windows retard... u miss older times >I even miss the fucking games. I play everything on Linux... From older to newer games. Install PlayOnLinux and you are good to go.
Leo James
How do I do it?
Ryder Richardson
Why does playonlinux always get mentioned and not lutris?
Angel Martin
I've been playing D2 in a low-resource win Xp VM. Works just fine.
Adrian Nelson
I don't have any such nostalgia. I can no longer walk in ignorance.
Leo Sullivan
Did u use qemu? If so, could you post the exact steps you took when setting it up?
Chase Clark
>main arch >run windows 7 inside vm >vm has exclusive access to my eGPU >passthough direct control of my mouse and keyboard when I gayme >all servers function continuously in the background >use bridged networking so the vps and other windows vms continue functioning in the background as if nothing happens >mfw I run, arch, arch, wes7,wes7,w7 all at the same time on the same machine and cant see any performance decrease what so ever
Zachary Ward
Just dual-boot you fucking loser, Jesus Christ. Why is everyone on this board such a fucking autist about this shit? Its possible to have more than one operating system you fucking idiots
Asher White
Lutris doesn't have as many wine scripts as PlayOnLinux. Plus, PlayOnLinux is already in most repos, while Lutris isn't for some reason.
Hunter Campbell
i have an old 478 celeron tower under my bed. i turn it on and tinker with it a few times a year. feels good man... Winamp, blasting my tunes from 2003. Playing quake 3. comfy... Pic from 2013.
Liam Hill
The nostalgia I have with dos/win is being able to customize my computer and have it stick. This is not easily possible with windows anymore. There is nothing comfortable about the windows update process. For reasons like those I'm happy to stay on linux.
