I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it’s been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.
As much as I prefer other distributions over it, I am grateful for everything that Ubuntu has done to grow the Linux userbase.
I was listed on the page of people who might burn one for you for free!
How often did someone take you up on the offer?
Twice, I think? It’s been many years, I think I added myself there when 9.04 was the hot new thing, so around 2009.
They even shipped this to me in India. Pleasantly surprised at that point.
Don’t, you’re making me well up. A while ago my hard drive died and I was looking for a flash drive to live boot. Only one I had was months old. Tried to get a new one, couldn’t. Tried to order online, couldn’t. It’s crazy how hard it is when they used to literally send out the things for free.
to be fair if you don’t have a Ventoy stick with a dozen or so distros and recovery tools by now you deserve to be scrambling for a boot disk
😱 I’d never heard of a Ventoy stick until you mentioned it. Thank you.
