LinuxBBQ

Post only very old scrots of yours. We all want to see how ugly, bloated and embarrassing your desktop looked like years ago. :)

I begin. The good old times with the classic real Gnome 2 desktop and fancy Compiz, OMG and look at the bloat on the top panel, though my Mate setup is very similar but more minimal visually.





Thank god Postimage has all my old scrots. :)

Good ole postimage.org :)
This is Scrot zero:

Back in only 2012, fuck.
I now work for the guy in the jabber window :)

@ivan You don't happen to know what GTK2 theme that is, do you? I don't particularly mind it :)

@wux It's a beauty /s Such a nice thing to be able to gauge from whence you came. I wish I had kept some of my earlier scrots; they were real facepalms.

It was my first Gtk3 theme ever, Gnome 2 was in transition those days to Gnome 3 on Testing. Damn, I cannot remember the name but is on Dev Art.

A couple of mine: #!, just two years ago.

I dug this up from dA; shot from 2011 :)



I don't know why I can't access the full-res image, but it's supposed to be glorious 1280x1024.

^ nice, though.
A lot of mine went away with omploaders demise. :'(

DrC: you jest? it was running on this:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:380XD Which wasn't a joke. My introduction to linux was installing xfbdev drivers for X or something. Which wasn't a joke :p

^ Wow. That looked fun :) I meant no offense; it was quite a feat to be able to get Linux running on some of those old beasts. I am fortunate I started with Linux when I did; everything is so much easier to configure today...

^ wasn't that long ago. :p
sorry I got a bit snappy, long day at work. :)

I am not sure if it is Xfce 4.6 or 4.8.





Scrots are from 2011.

wuxmedia wrote:^ wasn't that long ago. :p
sorry I got a bit snappy, long day at work. :)

It's all cool :D

Only a year ago, but my eyes are bleeding. Still not as good at sexy setups as most of you...

Eh, that's nice!

^^ Better than what much of what is on /r/unixporn :)

^^^ Nice bones, and no worry, be happy that you never have to see my ugly scrots here :)

There was a time I played with conky on DEs.

Well consider the bloat (conky, wbar), the memory usage wasn't that bad :P

3 years ago, debian sid, wmfs2.

Nice one Frank! Mine was on an old P3 with Delicate Linux (fork of Deli Linux). There wasn't a JWM package, so I wrote a PKBUILD (which looks a bit like those from Arch). Some dependencies have different names and Delicate is using uClibc instead of glibc (which is sometimes a pain in the ****, but as I've been told.. it's a bit lighter).

A nice necrobump.
This was when it was called scrotwm, much better name than now. :)