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Linux was awesome 15 years ago. They probably just had driver problems. Those used to be much worse.
In the command-line-only world of the 80s I thought Unix was awesome already!
I mean, the core utilities are all from then and there.
TBH as a developer on an old system called VMS I've never loved Linux. VMS syntax was a beautiful thing. Commands and command options were all real words, which made it all very intuitive. For example, the command to print 3 copies of a file in landscape orientation would be PRINT /COPIES=3 /ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE <filename>. You could also abbreviate any way you wanted, as long as the result was unambiguous. PR /C=3 /O=L would probably work. But the natural words were always in your head. By comparison I've always found Unix/Linux syntax much harder to remember.
According to the Wiki the latest release is 3 months old. It is still in use, but doesn't look to be for the average consumer.
Wow, the last time I actually used VMS was when Digital Equipment Corp still existed. It was written for their VAX systems, not PCs but a "minicomputer" of the 80s, successor to the PDP-xx of the 70s (which the original Advent and Zork were written on). When DEC went out of business or got sold or whatever VMS became OpenVMS. There's an x86 version now but I've never tried it.
It was.