Fuck me you're right
I Mandela effected myself. I was entirely convinced that w95 only dropped in early 1996 after getting hammered by delay after delay. No idea where I got that from.
Had a fun experience in the back then times that my father's computer became infected with one of those nineties style "funny guy" viruses. You know the ones, the ones that seem less interested in stealing money and doing damage and more interested in just fucking with you.
Of note:
- if you tried to open Mozilla Firefox it'd autokill it and pop a message saying "use IE or else"
- if you tried loading up Orkut (look, we were Brazilians in the early aughts. We all used Orkut) it'd kill your browser saying orkut was banned from that PC
- it'd occasionally pop up messages with rude text seemingly at random
Iron Lily is the big good
This could sound like a dig on op but it's not, it's a different bugbear from elsewhere:
Thinking Linguistic Pedantry makes you a cool guy.
It doesn't.
Anyone who points out minor spelling mistakes as some manner of gotcha should be made fun of aggressively.
Windows 95 came out in 1996 though...
Also curious about this.
I want to switch to Wayland but it hasn't treated me too well
Sad.
What foreign language is this
Gryphon, so, technically hexapod.
That said -- Actual birds can totally pull off this position, as anyone who's ever seen a cockatoo eating will tell you.
Literally what I said.
I actually still end up using Windows 11 on occasion because work.
But the last windows I daily drove was 8.1
Prior to that, Linux was "the other OS" and Windows the daily driver. I started using Linux for the first time in the Windows XP era.
Image hosting site murdered the quality of the screenshot :(
Appreciate you finding the actual tumblr link. Will edit the post to point to that instead.