Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On 2025-04-30, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:24:22 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>

One of the barriers, is people cannot really imagine anything better.
People just accepted in the 90s that computers were unstable and
crashed.  It was just a given, but when my friends asked me about Linux,
and I showed that I could burn a CD, listen to music and download a file
and browse *at the same time*, they were impressed.  Computers didn't
need to crash.

>
Ironically computers were more stable in the '80s. It took Windows to
introduce the world to the BSOD.

True.  My Commodore 64 never crashed, except for actual hardware failures.

My XT system very rarely crashed.  Most DOS programs were pretty stable.

Even Windows 3.1 ran OK.  It was Windows 95/98 that was a crapshow.