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[โ€“] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still have a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere, I liked it because it had a nice window manager before Linux and I hold onto the disk out of nostalgia

[โ€“] davefischer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CDE had the advantage of being useful with a default config, at a time when most window managers required HUGE amounts of fiddling to get a nice environment.

[โ€“] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the first time I saw CDE was doing AIX for PPC admin and I thought it was nice so went and got the student edition of Solaris for something like โ‚ฌ7.50, lol

IIRC at the time CDE for Linux was available for about โ‚ฌ50, which was a lot of money back then!

Unfortunately I had approximately zero apps for Solaris, so apart from playing with the OS I got no actual use out of it.