I blame you guys, no really. I’ve been trying out Linux for 2 days now, just testing it on an old HP Elitebook laptop and now a Poco X3 Pro. There wasn’t an official distro for it but I kinda put a frankenstein version together based on an old guide online. Its hilarious. I predict that by this time next year I’ll be running Linux on everything. Its like finally getting my freedom back after having used Windows for almost 30 years. Before that I used Commodore Amiga (a 1200) exclusively, but had to hop over back then due to work creating some games for the PC and releasing those on CD-Rom.

Windows gets shittier every day and I kinda saw this day coming a mile away. I’ve never truly been a Windows fan but you know I mean you wanna use computers you kinda have to and I’d hate the other alternative even more. I’ve been overjoyed with Linux so far though, despite having some major run-ins due to it having a big learning curve, but thats ok, because I can see its totally worth it.

I dunno when Linux started becoming this good, I mean the last time I touched it was 26 years ago and it crashed under my clumsy hands back then right away. (lol)

However, today, I love what I’m seeing. Its like having my old Amiga back (my real Amiga is being fixed right now, coincidentally) With that phone OS I love that you can just control it trough ADB with root access. Its pretty awesome, yet in example a banking app under waydroid will still see that phone as “not being rooted”.

I wanna mess around more with it today, specially trying to get Wine to work on that poco, and then running stuff like Winamp on it.

I’m pretty new to the Fediverse too in fact I just joined you guys last month but I love what I’m seeing, learning and the information and advice I’m getting. Thank you guys so much, and thank you too for opening my eyes to Linux. It will be real nice not needing Micro$oft anymore.

Anyway, just wanted to share this with you guys. Picture related, its Linux Touch running on one of my old Poco X3 Phones.

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    Was there any reason you had to use an external modem in your country? Or did the system just not have one built in.

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      The only internet we could get was from landline telephone operator. Maybe there already was coaxial from cable TV, but cable TV was very expensive in itself. And we weren’t rich

      So that external usb modem was actually the hardware our ISP gave us, and it was fed with telephone plug, not RJ45

      But it might be also true that in those times having a network card on MB was not a standard