Just thought I would share this just for fun – screenshots of my Linux desktop from around the year 2002. If I remember correctly, this was the Mandrake Linux distribution, and I used the Blackbox X11 window manager.
This screenshot shows a TUI frontend-app I made for ripping audio CDs. I find it amusing that TUIs (Text User Interfaces) are apparently gaining popularity. New developer toys like those agent orchestration apps that talk to the LLMs in the sky. And a whole slew of other things, for instance in the frontend world. Very fancy TUIs actually. I’ve been using the command line and TUIs for over 25 years and still love the simplicity and purity.
This one is obviously more of a show-off screenshot with a different theme. Some great apps here: MPlayer, XMMS (audio player), Emacs (of course, still great), and lets not forget top(1) running in the background.
I used 6 virtual desktops, and this screenshot shows my «AllSeeingEye» desktop. Apparently just different logs/apps being tailed/watched in borderless and transparent terminal windows. Funny how the web server traffic is obviously some script kiddie trying to hack me.
My Linux desktop today is much more boring.