Found this blast from the past (2015) on an old hard drive
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I was 11 when I took this screenshot - Ubuntu 14.04 running on my very first (incredibly bad) PC. As I recall, I couldn't install Windows 7 without a DVD drive, and that was out of my budget :p
Pretty sure I had it riced out with the Compiz cube and everything.
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I’m not joking when I say that the compiz cube was the reason I got into Linux back in the day. In hindsight, it was just a neat graphical gimmick, but it was enough to spark my lifelong love for free software.
The cube? Not wobbly windows, or the fire screensaver? I guess it takes all sorts... ;)
Wobbly windows was when computing peaked. It's been downhill ever since.
Yeah the same nudged my sister to switch over, and she still is on GNU/Linux to this day.