Gnome

Back in mid-2017 I wrote about the different Linux distributions I’ve used over the years. At that time I was using Ubuntu 16.04 running the Gnome desktop.

Not long after that I switched over to Fedora running release 25 - also with the Gnome desktop. I can’t recall why I switched because it’s a bit like swapping one SUV for another (they all look the same to me). Perhaps I thought Fedora was a more ‘pure’ form of Linux than that provided by Ubuntu? Speculation. At this time I also loaded Fedora 25 running the Xfce desktop onto a small 32 bit Mini computer I had.

Over the years I’ve tried many different distributions (distros) of Linux, running a variety of Desktop Environments.

I bought my first desktop computer back in 1995. It was extortionately expensive for what you got. Around $3,000 if I recall correctly. It came with Win 3.1 (soon upgraded to Win 95), 8MB of memory (yep, you read that right), a 540MB hard drive (yep, again), a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive and not much else. Years before that I had owned a Sinclair Spectrum which connected to a TV and used a cassette tape for storage and loading programs.