Anyone else here remember LindowsOS (later changed its name to Linspire)?<p>In the early 2000's (around the time of the article), they were trying to get point and click simplicity for installing software (which even back then was abundant in Linux). I remember a few others distros, like Mandriva (Mandrake at the time) had graphical package managers. There were others.<p>To anyone who's curious and feels like giving old Linux distros a try, <a href="https://old-linux.com/" rel="nofollow">https://old-linux.com/</a> is a good resource. Unfortunately I can't find any mirrors of repos with packages that go back to 1998 and early 2000's.