For those veteran linux people, what was it like back in 90s? I did see and hear of Unix systems being available for use but I did not see much apart from old versions of Debian in use.

Were they prominent in education like universities? Was it mainly a hobbyist thing at the time compared to the business needs of 98, 95 and classic mac?

I ask this because I found out that some PC games I owned were apparently also on Linux even in CD format from a firm named Loki.

  • constantokra
    2·
    6 months ago

    How wrong did you have to be to break your monitor? Because I’m positive I got it very wrong a whole lot of times and never managed that.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      By the late 90’s most monitors were smart enough to detect when sync speed was too far off and not try to display an image.
      It was the old monitors that only supported a single or fixed set of scan rates that you had to worry about damaging. Some could be very picky and others were more tolerant.

      • constantokra
        2·
        6 months ago

        Thank goodness I had a newer monitor then, because I would definitely have toasted several.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I managed to make mine do some very worrying noises, but none of my monitors broke either, even though the bandwidth I based my calculations on was often kinda made up.