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I use linux because, in the 90s, Redhat shipped with a Star Trek game. We are not the same.

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I use Linux because of compiz fusion cube desktop. We are not the same.

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We are not. When I want a cubic desktop environment I reach(ed) for BeOS.

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and NeXT for the cubic computer itself

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Tux Racer go brrrr

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Oh, I hadn’t thought of Tux Racer in ages. I think I need to play that again.

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Tux racer go b…r…r…r

I only had access to ex-corporate office hand-me-down motherboards as a kid. This was about 1 potato per 3 seconds of rendering performance (I’m 34)

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It did? Which one?

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I’ve been trying to remember but it hasn’t come back to me. It was a 2D, top down, space battle game. Its possible it wasn’t named after Star Trek, but you pilot a grey ship with a saucer section and nacelles to fire torpedoes and phasers at green bird of prey looking ships so…

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Xtrek would be what pops to kind for me, possibly?

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That all sounds very familiar. The one I played was full color but it must have either been a late version of Empire or something heavily “inspired” by it.

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I think my mother played that star trek game on a time shared minicomputer.

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I use Arch btw


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