Microsoft Took A $20 Million L…

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at the time Microsoft took a company known as Lindows to court. While one would think they'd have an easy win, this situation caused them to settle and give the people they accused a massive payout or risk them changing the name of their biggest product and trademark forever. This is the story of Microsoft v Lindows! Thanks for watching!
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[@user-tu9hn1gp4t]

Microsoft losing $20 million is like your upper-class neighbor losing a $100 bill.

[@oxylepy2]

So I'm going to spend the next couple days looking for it, eh?

[@mreshadow]

​@@oxylepy2If you're upper class you'd be out relaxing by the pool, drinking a Mai tai, imagining that if it happened to show up that would be nice.

[@thehint1954]

More like $1 bill

[@Tilt_TM]

This happened in 2004 though. $20m would have been a much larger chunk of their revenue at the time.

[@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza]

so basically "boo hoo for the rich people" but more of a "drink my hot coffee in peace as a fellow comrade"

[@acronym.4328]

Lindows walked so Winux could run.

[@Yuan-lo3zz]

Lmao

[@ospir_]

what about wapple lacintosh?

[@TrustMeIKnowEverything]

​@ospir_ wow you didn't get the joke lol

[@Yuan-lo3zz]

@@TrustMeIKnowEverything he did lol

[@vanpeters9751]

linspire is way better than indows

[@MoonMinHo]

Virgin Windows vs. Chad Lindows

[@cqwickedwake7651]

Ahhahahha dayum

[@ruski9861]

when the W is L and the L is W

[@psuedonym9999]

Thad Michaelsoft Binbows

[@xandermckay9806]

@@psuedonym9999That’s literally just a computer shop.

[@dustinswatsons9150]

I thought some CNN broadcast News channel thing was coming in when that crap booted

[@goverlord]

the music industry was HATED by everybody back in the early 2000's

[@CathrineMacNiel]

still is

[@baeber]

thats something that won't ever change

[@Dave102693]

People still do

[@washuai]

​@@Dave102693 yup love the art and usually, the artists (or love to hate them), but hate, just hate the artist grinder.

[@R3QV13m]

was?

[@Vans89]

microsoft taking an L, say no more. I'm watching.

[@JmKrokY]

Real

[@cassaraysnova]

I FUCKING HATE MICROSOFT THE ONLY GOOD OS THAT YOU CAN PRACTICALLY USE TODAT IS WINDOWSS 8888

[@somethingsomeone9678]

real

[@evindrake5585]

LFacts

[@kaio0777]

Yup 👍🏾

[@kaantheanimator]

the L in lindows is for microsoft and the W in windows is for the creator of lindows

[@Irosicndosjnf]

Sometimes

[@joshrodgers9366]

20 million to Microsoft is like me dropping a penny on the side walk

[@betag24cn]

its not about the money, it is about the win, microsoft losing is news, great news, they look bad losing on these stupid cases and they have to pay now

[@joshrodgers9366]

It's a shame tho that it didn't hurt them at all. Maybe if the cost was actually serious they wouldn't be such a monopolistic greedy company.

[@campfirx]

Mutahar is a better source of news than any social media rn lmao

[@spooderderg4077]

KZbin is social media. Social media is just a website where you can make your own content on a profile linked to you that can be used to network with others and gain connections as friends, business partners, what have you. If you're wondering. Yes this means everything on the internet that isn't a chan board or a search engine that you engage with these days is a social network. Social media being differentiated from legacy media in that any individual users can create the media rather than only big companies.

[@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza]

​@@spooderderg4077 okay bud, calm down, this isn't "are you smarter than a 5th grader"

[@spooderderg4077]

@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza Posting a correction with an explanation is considered big mad these days?

[@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza]

@@spooderderg4077 never said you were big mad, just yapping

[@campfirx]

@@spooderderg4077 i didnt say youtube, i said Mutahar specificly as an individual💀

[@darkstarrynights]

crying when I realize that people born in 2000 are college grads now. I'm old, help.

[@KyanoAng3l0]

Same.

[@saccorhytus2728]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Those of us who remember the past are old as sh*t.

[@Dragoncam13]

College grads,married,and with children now as well

[@Deedlanger]

Lol not me, i still studying college 😂

[@CyanRooper]

The people who were born the same year that Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 2 came out are all old enough to vote. The people who were born the same year The Dark Knight and the first Iron Man movie came out are old enough to drive or will be old enough to drive. The people who were born the same year that Tony Hawk's Underground 1, Pirates of the Carribbean Curse of the Black Pearl, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 and The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King came out are all old enough to drink or will be old enough to drink. We are closer to the year the plot of Call of Duty Black Ops 2 is set in (2025) than we are to the year the game was released (2012).

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

In Japan, around that same time, there was a computer store with a Michaelsoft Binbows sign. There was a KZbin video on it. It ultimately closed its doors. It was not in a major city, and probably went out of business, as most mom and pop computer stores did.

[@pedrofayolle]

Nick Robinson has the most unreasonably comprehensive videos on it, he even found the original building and went there in person.

[@weshuiz1325]

4:17 "Back in the day it was downloading mp3 files" laughs in ytdlp

[@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza]

Hahahahahaha piracy is the way

[@adriancarrillo2026]

Used to love doing that as a kid but now it's not worth it imo because I always notice the KZbin audio compression

[@EDUB9X3]

More like limewire.

[@nightly_luke]

laughs in low quality audio

[@harryshuman9637]

@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza 7 seas is the way for music preservation. Without it albums like Party Time by 5th Platoon would be lost forever.

[@nickmudd]

Why is "back in the day" when I was a teenager 😭

[@rustymustard7798]

I was like 30 back in the day, i survived the Cola Wars, all the cool 'new' bands i like are "Classic Rock" now.

[@goverlord]

@@rustymustard7798 the Cola Wars, the Second British Invasion, I've seen it all

[@Zumi909]

​@@rustymustard7798damn grandpa

[@TrustMeIKnowEverything]

🤦🤦🤦🤦

[@AJ-po6up]

Times really flies, at least look at the bright side, the fact that we're getting old means that we're still alive, many don't have that privilege.

[@AJ-po6up]

DUDE even their logo screams crusty early 2000s design, just looking at it transports me back in time and gives me a nostalgia injection, I used to make logos like that on my PC when I was bored, back when I didn't even have an internet connection but had a pirated copy of photoshop somewhere on some CD.

[@Galluxi]

The early 2000s internet and technology is so nostalgic it actually hurts.

[@OctyabrAprelya]

Bro. Not even that far away! I have a ton of download sites from around 2010 ~ 2015 (mostly music and films) and they're all DEAD Wanted to download the subtitles for a series my sister wants to watch and the sites I used to get subtitles from died thanks to Netflixh. Gosh the whiplash. T_T

[@brianperry4815]

Even more so in the late 90s. Back when most people bought desktop computers. Or built there own.

[@mschulmeister6519]

Thinking of "Lindows" as a br-portuguese speaker sounds fun cause "Lindo" means "Pretty/Beautiful", and with that in mind in english this operating system would be like "Beautyfows"

[@HarkTrack9661]

yaaa in spanish Lindo is also pretty damn, wat a satisfying win

[@kbrnsr]

You're beautyfow

[@WahRizz]

Beautyfow UwU

[@Micha-Hil]

22:28 Mutahar being possessed by Cr1tikal for 5 seconds

[@Boiled-Oden]

How tf xD

[@ausername7470]

Oh shit for real 😂😂

[@DeathlyPhantom]

IT DO BE LIKE THAT!!!!!!

[@DaFrancc]

This OS looks and feels like you're using an OS that your friend made. The things like the chill thank you note that's installed by default and little things like that make it seem more chill and personal.

[@Laszlo34]

"We started down *WHAT PATH* with this insane lawsuit?!?! Derail it, _NOW_ I don't care how. Pay 'em off. $20M? Hand me my check book, and hurry!!" MS is so evil!

[@brianperry4815]

Especially when Microsoft went after venders at computer shows for pirated software. ANYBODY selling software or homebuilt computers better have the legit Microsoft software on it.

[@doctahjonez]

Yeah that company is like the mafia lmao

[@oxylepy2]

This last week I swapped to Mint, thanks Muta. I tested some other distros, but Mint was awesome. Reformatted my Windows harddrive and will never touch MS products again.

[@akl2k7]

Yeah, my laptop was frustratingly slow with Windows. I switched to Mint a few weeks ago, and it's been far better.

[@alicevioleta3184]

@@akl2k7my decade old mechanical drive shipped with win8, in a decade old laptop. if i tried to run 10 on it i imagine it would run like shit, even though 8 was (mostly) fine. i put KDE Neon on it several years ago, and i've had few problems since then. best decision i've ever made.

[@admiralkaede]

hope u have fun personally im still on windows but i support anyone who wants to swap to any linux distro and mint seems to be a pretty good one

[@torinnbalasar6774]

I play too many games to easily make the full migration, so my strategy has been switching to Linux when the version of Windows I'm using reaches EOL. Windows 10 was the last version I got on any device, so I have another year at least, unless I figure out how to painlessly migrate to 10 LTSC from Pro.

[@jacob96014]

Seeing you laugh and smile and scream at this OS and how old it is and the Nostalgia made me smile so much, being born '95 i keep forgetting im almost fucking 30. Getting old fellas but still feel 16 xD

[@joeshmoe7485]

I still use mp3's and so do a lot of people. Fuck Spotify, they alter the music, and they don't have everything I want to listen to.

[@rustymustard7798]

Lol i never find a single thing i want to hear on there, it's all just a bunch of modern day bubblegum pop commercial mush.

[@zac-1]

@@rustymustard7798 You must be really incompetent then.

[@user-tp5yb4hr4w]

I tried using Spotify for a while, but they detected that I was using an ad blocker and they shut down my account, so I went back to KZbin where I have a superior selection of free music and my ad blocker never gets blocked, funny that right, I know they're trying to stop the ad blocker technology on their platforms, and they might one day get there, but for now I get away with listening to all the free music that I could possibly want to listen to on KZbin without having to deal with the ads or paying them to get rid of the ads. Right now Life on KZbin is fantastic, and I listen to hours and hours and hours of music, frequently when I'm playing video games I turn off the games music and I listen to music on KZbin while I game on whatever game I'm playing, like for example if I'm playing Fallout 4 and I want to listen to some oldies music, I could listen to the music that's in the game sure, but that's a very limited selection of oldies music, if I want a far wider variety of music, I just open up a tab on KZbin and play that in the background while I play my game, not to mention I can pause and play the music any damn time while I play my game without issue, it's actually my preferred method of listening to music. The only problem I run into is KZbin's automatic pause feature that assumes you're not listening to whatever you're listening to and just pauses the video for you, that's a bit of an annoyance, and usually I have the capability of hitting the pause button and then hitting it again in order to resume the music, I hate that built-in feature of KZbin to Auto pause the music while you're listening to it, if I want to pause it I pause it myself, but this is another reason why I don't like individual songs like individual videos on youtube, if it's a list of a compilation of songs say it's a video that's an hour to 2 hours sometimes 3 hours long, those ones I love the most because the music appears endless for hours on end, what's best is when you find one of those 24-hour live streams of music you can play those for as long as you want. But yeah I understand at some point KZbin will have their way, and all of this great delicious entertainment will go away, and the ad blockers will not work on their website, so I say enjoy it while you still can.

[@Brixster]

@@zac-1it's not their fault that Spotify's recommendation algorithm is a pile of dog shit.

[@asiano3385]

I still own a mp3 player...

[@bodell2285]

with how he blatantly did all that, he knew exactly what he was doing and he probably understood the laws pretty well with how he managed to weave his way through court. He probably knows exactly what to do to be able to skirt the law, i mean he fought windows willingly and won he knew exactly what he was doing, if not he is the luckiest fucking man to ever exist

[@TigasHyper]

"One small independent recording studio, UMG". I don't know if he was trolling but UMG was and still is a gigantic music empire.

[@mrnomnomjr4339]

Lmfao

[@mrme6336]

Bro can't take satire

[@person8064]

​@@mrme6336 Media literacy is dead

[@XenoSpyro]

Yes, it's sarcasm. "Small indie studio [insert big company]" is a meme generally used to mock said big company.

[@AJ-po6up]

No way really? what's next are you going to tell me that the small indie company known as Microsoft is in fact a gigantic software conglomerate too?

[@Jake-0011]

I genuinely love this channel, I've lost count of how many years I've been watching at this point but I'm so thankful for hours of entertainment you've given us. This channel is so chill, It doesn't even matter what you upload, I'll always be clicking until I ain't got no clicks left to give.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

Ah man, KDE3 with Keramik and Crystal Icon Theme, that takes me back; 16 years or so :D

[@pedrofayolle]

Same. Also fun to see Mozilla (not Firefox, but its predecessor) and XMMS (Winamp clone) in there.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@pedrofayolle yep that's the Mozilla Internet Suite. Including an IRC chat, Email Client, Web Editor and the libre Netscape Navigator. Good times.

[@audiobotguy0357]

You can actually still install it today, funnily enough. it got forked as Trinity Dekstop.

[@SoundsOfSushi]

I miss Binbows memes

[@Mario583a]

We all miss that building :(((

[@marilynlucero9363]

Omg yes.. I remember BinBows. Michaelsoft Binbows if my memory served me right.

[@KingLich451]

@@marilynlucero9363 yeah there was a whole video of a guy trying to find the Binbows building, and he did.

[@SmuggumsMcGee]

@@marilynlucero9363 The Michaelsoft Binbows building was actually a second hand computer store in Japan. The Binbows part is a play on words because in Japanese binbou (貧乏) means poor.

[@WahRizz]

Michealsoft

[@SarahJNelson-ej7it]

I don’t know why it took me this long to turn on notifications for your channel but my God am I glad I did

[@JJW-fg1zp]

Bot

[@WahRizz]

🤖

[@WahRizz]

wait are you bot?

[@rjawiygvozd]

"on the surface level this doesnt actually look like linux" actually it absolutely does if you ever used KDE 3

[@joe--cool]

Yeah, this looks pretty much like stock KDE3 with changed names. KDE still includes the Potato Man. It's called ktuberling.

[@3ftninja132]

Windows nearly had a Supermac’s incident on their hands. 😂😂

[@CrvrMb]

I used to sell pirated CD’s when CD writers first came out when I was in middle school. Yes I’m old. 😊

[@amberhernandez]

Having your Help section indicator be a life raft is actually a cute idea ngl

[@jarrodhull1880]

You should do more videos like this, this was a banger!

[@KakashiHatake-jz4bu]

Bro this was awesome and took me back as well!

[@xmisumi]

i still download mp3 files and store them... i like buying soundtracks on steam and storing them in high quality

[@franciscocarballo788]

That was a very enjoyable history lesson. Also, Happy Birthday, Mutahar!

[@deflatedsquidward8572]

Mutahar never fails to make me Mutahard 😎

[@deadprivacy]

Mutumescant.

[@YeNewsYeezus]

Muta made me like futa 😎

[@RileyBanksWho]

Matuhar made me mutacum

[@blendercouldren8063]

She gamered on my ordinary.

[@falcon1378]

@@RileyBanksWhotranslation still works surprisingly well lool

[@Will-kt5jk]

I’m a bit older, so vaguely remember this as a kid. IIRC the Lindiws distro came free on a CD on some magazines at the time. ReactOS (FOSS Windows natively compatible OS built from the ground up) was already being developed at that point too (that’s still not even reached v0.5 after 20-odd years)

[@betag24cn]

if you have not tested it, is as bad as is used to be, reactos is old history

[@pedrofayolle]

ReactOS may not be usable (or even ever become so, since Windows is a fast-moving target), but I don't think it's fair to shit on it like that, it's a massive undertaking for just a small team of volunteers, and it's technically very impressive even if there's no stable release. But also, if it was actually usable it's likely Microsoft would nuke it out of existence with lawsuits.

[@betag24cn]

@@pedrofayolle it has been on a state where you install it and it just dies in minutes even corrupting the partition for more than a decade and nothing epse happened it is a dead project big or small, easy or hard, it is not happening

[@Markimark151]

I wish Microsoft lost the Activision Blizzard deal and gets rejected for their monopolization! Too bad our federal court system approved the disastrous merger!

[@djvidual8288]

I watched your COD video and complained about desk bumping noise and a lack of decoupling of your microphone... and you took the feedback seriously and improved all of it?! I never expected this to happen. I am impressed.

[@CosmicLF]

This brings so much memories from my childhood even though I'm not that old like the fact that I had to search the apps in the long list from the windows menu in order to oppen them

[@MrBrassporkchop]

Lol I was interviewed by the local news way back in 2001 or 2002ish regarding downloading songs and movies. I was a college student and they had a news lady with a camera man stopping students asking for their opinion on the whole mp3 file sharing thing since it was a really big deal back then. I remember Lars Ulrich being a big baby about it and everyone was making fun of him. It was so long ago I can't remember most of what she asked me except for one question because it was the one that was used in the report. And it was the very final clip. At the very end of the story they asked something like if a crackdown will put an end to file sharing. I laughed and said something like "No, someone out there will find a way and we will be able to keep doing it." I was a CS major back then and the next day my CS professors didn't say anything to me but they did give me a look hahaha.

[@Mag00777]

You said "Net Zero as a kid". As a kid?? I feel older...

[@washuai]

Yes, I had dial up The Simpsons internet, early college, before Net Zero. I feel older in other ways, but if I hadn't had a rough past 7 years, I'd look younger than Muta. I'm not dating Muta looks old. I'm saying everyone thought I was underage even in my thirties. If I hadn't hit hard times, I'd still look like a college kid.

[@danjoy2]

I don't think Microsoft is going to have to be very concerned about this Windows 98 clone.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

that's not a clone though?

[@betag24cn]

​@@CathrineMacNielreactos? it is a dream, will never happen

[@mycroft174]

awesome stuff, old internet is always a fascinating trip

[@asrieldreemurr2523]

This was during the Napster era I think, right?

[@biscuitkrueger3321]

Muta never fails two deliver

[@Dan-cm9ow]

It's spelled "fails two deliver"

[@biscuitkrueger3321]

​@@Dan-cm9ow yeah my bad

[@XioJN]

@@Dan-cm9ow where does the "two" part come in?

[@kite5882]

W pfp

[@aegoni6176]

​@@XioJNTrolling op, obviously 😂

[@jesusgaston3457]

When he said that got a flashback of the Conan show and the bit 'in the year two thousand'

[@Captain_Bobvious]

That start up music is a bop tho

[@DerangedScout]

I'll just wait for the ADHD cat.

[@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza]

What country are you from?

[@RileyBanksWho]

@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanzano

[@Clooger-]

​@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanzayes

[@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza]

@@Clooger- wonderful, understandable, have a nice day

[@MonikwithDaButter]

lmao

[@evillecaston]

This is nice and all, but can Lindows run BonziBuddy? This is extremely important.

[@user-tp5yb4hr4w]

What is bonsai buddy?

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@user-tp5yb4hr4w bonzibuddy was uhm, an experience. Like an annoying desktop wizard.

[@SymbioteMullet]

​@@user-tp5yb4hr4wit was half desktop assistant, half curio/toy, and _loaded with malware_ The worst combination of Clippy and data harvesting possible. And a purple monkey.

[@fredsvlogandreviews5867]

When you talk about buying an OS I am reminded of how I started using linux. I started using linux over 20 years ago and the first 2 distro I did go out and buy a physical copy. One being red hat and the other being Mandrake. I found them at book stores of all places.

[@colinchichester1809]

I remember getting wine to work back in those days...it could be such a pain in the ass I do remember when I got starcraft working oddly enough it ran better under wine than it did on winxp, the cutscenes were jittery under windows but were smooth as butter in wine

[@Rexhunterj]

"Microsoft is pleased" lol When we talk about corporations as a human entity, we've already lost all sight of what a corporation really is.

[@NobodyCares71]

I want Microsoft to fuck up so bad Linux gets more users and support for gaming

[@redherring5532]

Got Lindows back in the day in AOL Cerver, flashback

[@blackmark2899]

The year 2000? I had just finished Elementary School. The internet was the wild west, dial-up was not just the norm the internet and that form of access was new and it was cutting edge, and the process of making mixtapes was new and amazing. Ipads didn't exist, Ipods wouldn't be out for another year, and the Sega Dreamcast was the hot new game system. It was a simpler time.

[@alicevioleta3184]

Dreamcast is still my fav, best console ever

[@2ToneTommy9]

1 min 3 views fell off

[@AidenS7197]

How does it feel to be useless

[@Silkie_Dragon]

@@AidenS7197 I’m sure you can tell the class

[@Lewis94YouTube]

These comments hurt my soul

[@benji9390]

@@AidenS7197bro your name is aiden

[@2ToneTommy9]

@@AidenS7197 whomp whomp

[@Spitlebug]

Holy shot, I was just thinking about Lindows yesterday.

[@ck17350]

FYI, SIP is not only still used today, but it's the primary protocol for the vast majority of IP phones, period. Cisco has their proprietary version called Skinny, but yeah, it's as modern as TCP is despite having been around for 20 years.

[@BillAnt]

I was just gonna say WTF-R-Y-T-A?! Even mobile phones use it as their VoLTE protocol and of course all business SIP phones. smh

[@kharmachaos667]

That start up sound was incredible 😩

[@SocietyTomorrow]

Oh man, I remember this! I worked at a big box store back when it was around, and they were forced to change their name to Linspire. A lot of their guys ended up being major contributors to all the biggest Linux distros we all know today.

[@penrar]

Superb. Now do windblows next 🤣

[@TheExileFox]

That startup sound reminds me of that "Windows Tour" application on like Windows 98 which had a banger starting with a bell sound 😂

[@HPMED]

40k in 1h , keep up the good work bro

[@JoshuaC0rbit]

So this is weird because I distinctly remember getting a copyright claim... They wanted to make sure that I had permission to record my keyboardist in my band. Lol. I would imagine they would strike anybody that sampled or uploaded copywritten material

[@Undeadwilly13]

Awesome video man.

[@Sb129]

I remember seeing the Lindows computers at Fry's Electronics. It always interested me.

[@Bighomiehobbs]

Beating windows is a big achievement. the company should definitely put that on their resume now

[@LunaStar666]

24:07 I don't know why but this music sent me as Muta is watching XD

[@joea874]

LMAO same here, I thought I was the only one

[@neoqueto]

New Muta video, can't wait to paste the link to Google Gemini so it can summarize it for me based on the transcript, that's all it's useful for.

[@denvera1g1]

7:00 back in the day you could buy Windows, Mac OS, and Canonical Linux on the same shelf in some stores(last linux disk i remember seeing on shelves was like ubuntu 7. something, or maybe it was 10.07).

[@andreapaps]

10/10 start-up music :D

[@CinnaBunBear]

just wanted to say I started watching you on windows. now i'm on arch 🥳

[@DavidJonSpem]

Can you make a video on the new NVIDIA stuff being worked on with Wayland. I would someone to cover this. It's amazing stuff and soon a lot of people might have to rely on Windows anymore.

[@phsycotater3608]

I didn't have internet until 2007, So this is interesting to me, because in a lot of ways it was similar to what I remember, but in some ways it isn't. Also I enjoy your tech videos, including ones like this just going over some old OS, it's backstory, and how it works.

[@PastPresentFutureEndofTime]

I remember hearing about Lindows back then.

[@kssporty]

I remember lindows and very seriously considered buying a laptop with it on it already but never pulled the trigger on it. This is an awesome video.

[@Unguided]

Heard about this in an old Game Dungeon video. Glad we've got KDE Plasma now.

[@k33nan696]

Lol this is a crazy one Muta, their actually selling Linux on Pre Builts,,

[@thomasburchsted3287]

Small independent label UMG… Universal Music Group lol

[@Lando00100]

I miss Napster, they had like several cuts of the Same song. Almost like you had full access to the recording studios entire log.

[@stereokuuji]

0:33 Since you said maybe 2001...... I'll just say I was preparing for a race

[@samjmk3029]

i remember having the 3rd gen ipod nano for a my music back when i was in high school...

[@Littlefighter1911]

11:10 I don't know, there are a lot of free software there as well. Maybe some of them were native applications. Tux Racer, Quake 2, Gnome Tetris, If I'm not mistaken these are applications that existed for Linux for a long time.

[@deankhatri3068]

That drop background is the same as my pyshics text book lmao

[@WhyteRichardson]

That’s where I knew it from!!!!

[@ZelMeiren]

The sand Lindows has a very grunge or nu metal album cover vibe i feel

[@SmuggumsMcGee]

Other than the styling of the start menu to have the vertical ribbon on the left side and renaming folders to "My Documents" and "My Computer" etc. there's really nothing else they cloned. All the applications are just ones that KDE used to ship. Any similarity with Windows ones is KDE's doing.

[@cringeylazy]

awesome video!

[@canlelola]

Hay, I recall this from back in the day.

[@therealjammit]

I still have my Lindows CD somewhere. I never installed it, I just wanted to buy one. The guy behind Lindows knew Linux was free but was trying to monetize it so it would have a paid staff for support and fixes.

[@DaemonForce]

Knoppix 3.x was just around the corner from this one. I recognized KDE immediately because of familiarity with this. PHLAK was also a fighter. It's hard to believe there were so many exciting alternatives out there during the Morpheus/KaZaA era. I'm still not sure how teen me managed to wrestle WinPE into some survivable competition to Reatogo/ERD let alone skip most of these to work on writing loaders for SLAX. The Internet was a very different place back then and so were these distros. Simpler. Easier. Cleaner. Less resolution though. I didn't even get to widescreen until 2016. What a life.

[@jon-paulgrainger1303]

D12 - My Band.exe 🤣 those were the days

[@Shard113]

Downloading an mp3 is still superior to ad or subscription ridden services that always take more than the apparent cost of using them.

[@chriswillis4960]

I wonder what Lindows is based on, obviously the programs were reskins (maybe? idk just looked like old KDE to me) of KDE and similar programs like Audacious. It feels like every other wants to be windows linux os, trying to get as close with structure to the original. Also we didnt check out Linspire in this video, thought it looks more bog standard then Lindows.

[@Smokasaurus]

Wow that's some crispy audio compression...

[@shoegazersbackupacc6879]

Guile’s theme goes with everything.

[@audiobotguy0357]

I don't know if anyone here knows this, but KDE3 is still being maintained to this day as Trinity Desktop. I pretty much daily drive the thing on my Debian powered shitbox, and it's very cozy to use.

[@btarg1]

Fun fact: The Lindows Forum was involved in a stage of the Half-Life 2 hack (Axel Gembe recalled hacking the forum in an interview, although i dont remember if it was him personally)

[@andrewcoleman3741]

It's hilarious that Microsoft had to settle, since they, Xerox, and Apple had used the term "windows" generically before trying to trademark that as a product (and good on Lindows lawyers for pointing that out to the judge).

[@sativaburns6705]

I'm still listening to mp3s I ripped or downloaded in the 90s...