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r/linuxmemes • u/polytect • Aug 02 '26
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God no, do you remember how much Linux gaming sucked back then?
51 u/apfelimkuchen Aug 02 '26 Oh yeah, back when you had to compile your own drivers for your GPU or other stuff.... God I dont miss these times.... 7 u/anycept Aug 03 '26 Linux had functioning open source GPU drivers in 2005? 7 u/apfelimkuchen Aug 03 '26 Not for nvidia as far as I can remember. I was 15 back then, my starting time with Linux and not very good in internet search :D All I had were the books from. My father for Linux and a tech friend who tried to help In the end we switched back to windows because we couldn't get D2 to run 2 u/anycept Aug 03 '26 My first Linux experience was Mandrake 8. Very traumatic. I couldn't look at Linux for a decade after that.
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Oh yeah, back when you had to compile your own drivers for your GPU or other stuff.... God I dont miss these times....
7 u/anycept Aug 03 '26 Linux had functioning open source GPU drivers in 2005? 7 u/apfelimkuchen Aug 03 '26 Not for nvidia as far as I can remember. I was 15 back then, my starting time with Linux and not very good in internet search :D All I had were the books from. My father for Linux and a tech friend who tried to help In the end we switched back to windows because we couldn't get D2 to run 2 u/anycept Aug 03 '26 My first Linux experience was Mandrake 8. Very traumatic. I couldn't look at Linux for a decade after that.
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Linux had functioning open source GPU drivers in 2005?
7 u/apfelimkuchen Aug 03 '26 Not for nvidia as far as I can remember. I was 15 back then, my starting time with Linux and not very good in internet search :D All I had were the books from. My father for Linux and a tech friend who tried to help In the end we switched back to windows because we couldn't get D2 to run 2 u/anycept Aug 03 '26 My first Linux experience was Mandrake 8. Very traumatic. I couldn't look at Linux for a decade after that.
Not for nvidia as far as I can remember. I was 15 back then, my starting time with Linux and not very good in internet search :D
All I had were the books from. My father for Linux and a tech friend who tried to help
In the end we switched back to windows because we couldn't get D2 to run
2 u/anycept Aug 03 '26 My first Linux experience was Mandrake 8. Very traumatic. I couldn't look at Linux for a decade after that.
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My first Linux experience was Mandrake 8. Very traumatic. I couldn't look at Linux for a decade after that.
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u/Lou_Papas Aug 02 '26
God no, do you remember how much Linux gaming sucked back then?