DistroWatch turns 25

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The latest DistroWatch weekly has an overview of the changes both to DistroWatch and the Linux distro world over its 25 years.

Happy birthday DW :tada:

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25 years alive in the Internet website world is pretty amazing!

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The website does look like it was put together 25 years ago.

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It’s noisy, claustrophobic, hospital-corridor yellow, tiny boxes everywhere and very much “two thousand-zero-zero party over, oops, out of time” and every time I download a ***-load of isos and load up a Ventoy it’s:

bt
bt474Ă—474 26.3 KB

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It actually hasn’t really changed since then it seems. And if it has, it’s been so slight that you can barely notice it.

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I like it’s retro look, but it’s ridiculous that at the year 2026 you have to zoom into page on your phone to be able to read it reasonably and then swipe left and right to see some of the text completely.

Because it’s possible to keep the look from the ages of three days after the Big Bang and be still at the page with current technology.

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I’ve never visited it on my phone but I use mine mostly for phone calls not web surfing.
It displays fine on my PC though.

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It has a light mode / dark mode button!! NICE!!! :partying_face:

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All these years of visiting that site and I never spotted it :open_mouth: