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Linux during the mid to late 90s (Windows 95 and 98 era)
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And, of course, they'd almost never actually SAY that on the box, so you had to see if you could look at what exact chip was on them and explain to a retail employee why you needed to look in the box, and that no, you certainly weren't doing something sketchy, you just use Linux instead of wait why are you calling security...
"software" modems and soundcards. yeah.
Ah yes, the (in?)famous mWave cards come to mind here.
So shitty they not only didn't work in Linux, they ALSO never fucking worked right in Windows, either, and got IBM sued over what utter trash they were.