Knoppix, my old friend
Wow, that’s a blast from the past! Last release from April 2021, that’s far more recent than I would have guessed!
Now you’re doing pipelines forever. 😞
Fortunately not really, in my case. I stay out of the pipelines game as much as possible and focus on systems that enable better and more obvious pipelines. And then sometimes go tune some pipelines but mostly I find them to be pretty atrocious UI and much too snowflakey.
“The build is failing. Does anyone know why the build is failing!? See, right here. It says the build failed. Can someone look into why the build failed. Why is the build failing??”
10 minutes later…
“Nvm. It was something I did.”
Be me, the only one who knows how to read the ancient text of Jenkins log.
I also seem to be a member of the ancient society of log readers.
I really don’t understand why membership is so exclusive. Deciphering log messages isn’t always super easy but it usually isn’t too bad.
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The burn up windows was so cool.
You could also write on your desktop with fire!
I still have wobbly windows
And I still have the 3D cube (Desktop Cube GNOME extension).
Instructions unclear, had wobbly windows on a cube in hs 15 years ago but did not obtain degree or career, plz advise.
Also holy shit its actually been 15 years, jfc. Am I old now?
If you were in HS 15 years ago, you’re definitely not old. Unless you’ve been there at a considerably later age or something.
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Based on your username i guess you must be the bastard operator from hell ;)
Jokes aside, your story reminds me of my own, even though i needed to take a detour to realize i would love to make money doing that stuff.
I would say the first step is wanting to make a cool myspace page
Windows XP users were so jealous of my 3d and jiggly desktop.
I wish I would have taken a career in something related to Linux as I have always loved it and used it to a degree (stopped a bit when I got my first Mac, but that was after the career ended anyway), but I did in administration and now I’m unhappy I liked the heck out of Compiz though.
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This is unironically true, just that i have yet to finish college
Damn that’s a trip down memory lane
Fuck if this isn’t the truth… Saying this as a Sr. SRE with no degree or certs.
Its likely that I wouldn’t use linux today if it weren’t for messing around with compiz settings on school computers back when I was a teenager. Wobbly windows and desktop cube was such fun. I guess that’s how we can recruit new linux users. Get them while they’re young. “But does your windows laptop do this?” wobble wobble closing application by lighting the window on fire.
Sorry but can someone please explain? 3D cube? Wobbly windows? SRE?
Here you go: https://piped.video/watch?v=kR8x5Wb26ew
SRE is Site Reliability Engineer. I think the other two are screensavers maybe? I’m trying to decipher this myself.
Ok I think those are some kind of virtual machines or containers after reading other comments lol.
Aha - thanks.
I am on a desktop now and did some searching. I found this, which pretty much explains the OP’s smaller domino, I guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE
Yeah that’s pretty much it. You had multiple virtual desktops that let you have different sets of windows up on each and when you switched between them it played this cool animation of them laid out in a cube that you rotated to the next face. Then the wobbly windows is exactly what it sounds like. They’d jiggle when you dragged them around or when you maximized them.
Ran like crap on my old laptop I used for school but my god it was necessary to have. Still brings a goofy smile to my face whenever I’m moving windows around today since it’s a thing you can still do in Linux desktop environments. Had I not had my Comp Sci degree pursuits disrupted by chronic illness I’d likely have had a similar experience to OP.
