In those days Linux was an M1 that sort of but not quite ran on your local fuel and was 1/2" wider than your garage. The fuel problem would be sorted out just as soon as the engineers can get your city to admit what they added to the fuel but they won't even admit having knowledge of anything called "fuel." Eventually you get the new part that will make your M1 run on your local fuel but you need to rebuild the engine to install it, you don't really have any clue of how to do that but you have been talking to some vague personas in an alley for the past 3 nights and you are fairly certain you can do it. All seems to go well until you try and reinstall the engine, somehow it has gotten considerably larger than it had been and no longer fits in the engine compartment. So you rebuild it again, and again, and again, finally it works but now the glove compartment light is flashing error codes in Morse and the radio constantly drifts out tune. Repeat once or twice a year until about 2005 or so.

But you have your M1, you can not buy ammunition for its guns or drive it on any roads because the tracks will eat up the pavement but it is your M1.