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I started with SuSE 5 and it came with a book. I think it started with something like: "Don't panic! You can do this!"
It was rough at first, but once I got into it I was hooked.
I dug around in old boxes and found the book!
Can I get this kind of book but for Mint?
YaST and the fucking AVM Fritz ISDN ISA Card...
A part of me is still crying when opening YaST killed my hand written configuration...
Curious if you're still rocking suse today?
Nah I went over to camp Debian for a long time, switched when Debian Potato was released. Then when Debian kinda stalled I was lured into Ubuntu because they had the latest and greatest. I know it isn't the cool choice these days, but I have stuck with Ubuntu ever since.
Recently tired Ubuntu on my work laptop and it was a surprisingly pleasant experience compared to all the negative things I've heard about Ubuntu. Especially the installer was next level simple.
Yeah I love Ubuntu, it's really fine. But I think because it's easy and for a lot of people their first Linux, it's seen as like the baby version of Linux. So people bitch about it a lot, as if it's somehow inferior to other distros. Like if you don't compile everything from scratch you are somehow not worthy?
Hard "Real programmer" vibes. https://xkcd.com/378/
And yes, I use
picoas a text editor, it's fine really.Mint is basically Ubuntu without the controversial bits.
Hello fellow started-with-suse-but-switched-to-Debian-potato 🤝
Wow! That's really cool, Debian Potato was so hype back then. And every new release was amazing, I had Sarge running for so long. And I had a little home made router with Debian Sarge and an uptime of like 3 years. I had to replace the NIC on it, from a 10mbit coax only to a coax and UTP model because I was switching over to UTP. I didn't want to shutdown the server, so I live swapped the ISA cards, and it actually worked!
Those were the days.