@angdraug@mastodon.social @kyle It was circa 2.4.late/2.6.early when things were half OSS / half ALSA. The worst was having a laptop that would occasionally have the hd at /dev/hde instead of /dev/hda where was when the system was installed. Probably not actually Linux's fault, but fun anyway.

Now I never have an issue with a machine working. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Tails, Kali, whatever. My windows machine is reqd by work. I use it to change my password every 90 days.