[aeorgnoieang]

Connecting to whatever internet connection I had at the time was always the hardest thing (if all of the other basic hardware was supported).

Maybe I was better off in that I was getting my distro (Slackware) along with the giant 'Linux for dummies' book in which it was included. It still never got me far enough to be able to remove my Windows partition.

[rpeden]

I remember installing an early version of Red Hat on a machine that only had a Winmodem, not a real hardware modem that would just work in Linux.

Getting a Winmodem to work in Linux was possibly, but not exactly easy. I couldn't afford a better modem at the time, so I just kept hacking away at it and booting back into Windows and searching the web to try to figure it out. This was 1996 or so; there was far less information on the web than there is today, and search engines weren't exactly great at finding what you needed.

I think I finally got online from Linux after a week or two. :)

[fooker]

I have not-so-fond memories of trying to troubleshoot PPPoE issues.