I found these videos interesting and thought that I would share. The author installs Slackware 1.1 on an old 386 computer and then re-compiles the kernel to get sound and networking at boot. It just shows how far Linux has come from its early days.
Yes ! I remember editing by hand the X config file to get my video card working, and editing the LILO bootloader conf file for starting. I do not even speak of the editing and configuration of network… I began my Linux journey with Debian 2.1 and no X because my first video card was not supported.
In those days getting hardware to work in Windows was also a bit of struggle. Computing has advanced a lot in general. Plug-and-play was a big thing when it appeared.
Plug and play - first on Amiga As for Windows, when they went from .ini files (which you could at least copy/paste working parts together!) to that ridiculous registry agglomeration…