![]() Note the Linux kernel on the upper left: 2.6.9-nitro4. While sticking to my faithful FVWM window manager, I did take a peek or two at Enlightenment’s alpha version “ E17”, that eventually did get released in 2013. Still not satisfied with the big icons on the menu, I decided to make them even more Mac-alike by zooming in on hover: ![]() Xfce 4 was a big step up but couldn’t dethrone FVWM - instead, I ended up using its tools. The next month, it looks like the then popular “Lila icons” made its way to my machine, and I started loving Xfce’s file manager, “ Thunar”. At least I remembered correctly to take a screenshot while the context-menu is open to showcase it can do transparency! Wowza! That was something that required a lot of effort back in the day, and even hardware acceleration. ACPI and Linux 2.4 were not playing along, and the ugly Perl scripts didn’t particularly help either. I still remember it took me ages to get the battery and temperature levels working (on the bottom right). Funny, and completely useless.Ī few months later, the status bar started to look like a cheap OSX knock-off: Remember the floating duck, that indicates CPU/Memory usage? The more water, the more RAM, and the more waves, the more CPU usage. Many weeks later I discovered FVWM, and after even more weeks of fiddling with config files, my desktop looked like this: Oh, and kernel-patch your own vanilla Linux kernel - that too. Once I got hooked on Linux during my first university years, I decided in order to become a real pro, one has to install everything form source. Sadly, the SuSE Linux 6.3 screenshots are forever gone… And before 2003, it was not yet cool enough to share desktop screens on-line (that is: I didn’t know how!). Since the last few months I’m in a nostalgic hardware mood, let’s revisit some old desktops of which I meticulously kept screenshots from 2004 to 2008 from various systems. It’s like rediscovering a part of yourself you have long forgotten.
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