@dushman Funny that I am just celebrated 23 years ... since I permanently removed (no dual boot) Windows from my primary (often only) Desktop computers.
AND it was NOT better before. It has come a long way since fvwm95

@dushman There were no "desktop environment" and no unifying guidelines, so each application had its own crappy icons, its own look and feel, its own mouse/menu operations and so on. A lot of work happened in Console windows, with character applications (Emacs in my case).

The WWW was also incredibly crappy, all the browsers were incompatible with each other and themselves.

When KDE 1.0 came out, it was nirvana...

BUT, I ran 2 Java applications+web server+Netscape on a 32MB computer in 1998.

@dushman KDE 2.x was nice. 1.x not so much...
2.x also had a funky plug-in system (whatever it was called), so one could access for instance "fish://192.168.0.1/home/niclas/..." (fish = SSH plugin) in all KDE applications, from kwrite to the file explorer and more.
Remember I used fish:// a lot, with SSH tunnel through a firewall to an internal machine at a customers place, without any setup on their side (other than a SSH account for me), as their Source Control didn't work over the Internet.