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by auraham·5y ago·view on hn ↗
Related question: When was the last time you got excited about technology?

I remember the first time I installed GNU/Linux in my first desktop PC. I was so worry about it because I did not want to broke anything. I even bought more RAM because my machine only had 128 Mb. It was not enough for Ubuntu. After installing it, everything was new for me. Directories are now called places, anything is a file, multiple desktops, compiz, etc. I was very impressed at that time.

Now, we have reached a point where it is difficult to be impressed not because technology is not impressive itself but because we are so used to it.

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that Compiz WM was so incredible unstable in the first years. I think another reason was that lots of people (like me) lost their hope on the "Linux year of the Desktop". Today I see far less innovation and "dream ideas" on Linux than I saw 15 years ago.