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submitted 8 months ago by Waffelson to c/linuxmemes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Tried Redhat in the late 90s, but I really started using Linux with Mandrake, a few years later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Red Hat 5.1 CD from a magazine. Ended up at fedora and couldn't be happier.

[–] nilaus 1 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years later❤️.

[–] multicolorKnight 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.

[–] turbowafflz 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The first computer I had personally ran ubuntu, but counting other computers before that it could have been either ubuntu or centos that was first, I don't remember which

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Xandros on an eeePC 901

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

open suse (or was it mandrake? idk) around 2006. I remember trying it, and thinking "wow. This is trash" and then sticking with windows for 10 more years until giving ubuntu a try (and sticking to it). I tried other non-debian linuxes since then, but they all gave me that "wow, trash"-kind of feeling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu because I didn't know anything about it and wanted to see if I could use it to fix my win10 account on my old laptop.

[–] AppleMango 1 points 8 months ago

Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i honestly didn't do too much linux growing up; i was more involved with radio shack and trsdos and then win 3.1 (since we only had the one family computer; tandy sensation, whoo). then onto windows 2000. it was probably around the early to mid 2000s when i experimented with fedora with one of my coworkers; that was probably the first time i actually did a lot beyond basic commands ssh'ing into a web server on a web host.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Edubuntu, IT@School

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Endeavour, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.

[–] Crack0n7uesday 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Debian was first Linux, Sun was first UNIX.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Red Hat 6 in college.

Mandrake Linux 7 at home.

In 2000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Xubuntu in a vm on win10, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Kde, and now Nix.

I used Fedora the longest and OpenSuse the shortest as Kde reminded me so much of horrible windows. I've also tried a lot of other distros in a vm or live usb, Linux Mint, Mubuntu, Void linux, the one without any Gnu component(Artix?) and some other ones. I also have ISOs of some other esoteric Oses on my computer, DebianHurd, Redox, can't even remember rn but I'm yet to try them out.

I'm mentally restraining myself from distrohopping to Guix and or FreeBSD as I doubt I'd have the same workflow I have now on NixOS. To have distrohopped this much in the space of 18 months is why I'm a failed Javascript programmer.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 1 points 8 months ago

My first Linux experience was trying to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Power Mac G4 in college

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Suse Linux before it was opensuse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Boot/root floppies early '92

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Slackware, circa 1995. Kernel 1.2.8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

the family computer running ubuntu from 2010 on. I used it mainly for Web browsing and creating presentations for School. I was able to run League of Legends (that was in 2014 i think) through wine but i think it crashed in about 50% of Games during the loading screen :D. Linux gaming has truly come far since then (and now LoL doesn't run on Linux at all because of Riots Rootkit)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Fedora 7

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Fedora Core, I don't remember exactly which version it was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu in 2010 (with compiz' burning screen of course!). Got a new laptop a the time with decent to good specs and was shocked how bad it performed with the stock Win7 and bloated with bloatware (it was a Sony).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

DLD with some 2.0 kernel.

[–] pete_the_cat 1 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu 5.04 back in like 2004-2005. Although I did pick up RedHat 5 back in the late 90s but never managed to get it installed... Because I was like 11 or 12 lol

[–] butwm 1 points 8 months ago

Zorin :D

[–] shapptastic 1 points 8 months ago

Slackware, probably in 1997. My cousin lent me his copy, had like 100 floppies for the install.

[–] cmhe 1 points 8 months ago

SuSE Linux 6.0 I believe. Its been a while and I was very young then...

[–] iAvicenna 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

is he forcing her to look at the screen?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Debian Lenny in 1999.

[–] lysol 1 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu 6.04. It was really simple to get it up and running even back then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ubuntu, then Mint, now Arch, but I'm too inexperienced for it and want to try Kubuntu for native KDE with Plasma desktop.