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    Who was your first? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by Waffelson to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] pete_the_cat 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Damn, you got in on like the ground floor haha

    [–] Yaztromo 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    It was quite the interesting thing to run back then — it was all very “Wild West” of software, and a LOT of stuff didn’t work well.

    It wasn’t my daily driver; it really wasn’t ready for most workloads back then. But it was nearly free, and we shared around the CD-ROM amongst hacker friends interested in giving it a try.

    [–] pete_the_cat 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I attempted to install RedHat 5 in the late 90s, but I had no idea what I was doing since I was like 12 or 13 and we had just gotten our first computer. I never got around to actually using Linux until a few years later with Ubuntu 5.04

    [–] Yaztromo 2 points 7 months ago

    You can learn a ton installing your own OS, even if you don’t get things working in the end. Especially back in the 90’s when things weren’t quite as plug-and-play and hardware auto-detection was immature. So even if your RedHat experiment failed, good on you for attempting it anyway!