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.

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
    3·
    4 months ago

    In addition, everyone had a hardon for " compiling from source is better"

    I mean, optimization had more of an impact on the weak CPU’s back then, no?

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      That only matters if there’s anything to optimize by source compilation. If the program doesn’t have optimization features in the source, it’s wated time and energy.