My first distro was Xubuntu. It was 2014-15. I was still in high school. My pc was getting old, and I read online that Linux can make your pc run faster. Since it wasn’t my gaming machine, I decided to give it a try. I also read online that Xubuntu is among the lightest of distros, so decided to install that. It really was a night and day difference in performance.
I’ve switched distros a few times (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu Gnome -> Manjaro KDE -> EndeavourOS KDE, also run AlmaLinux on a few headless server machines) since then, but never went back to Windows ever again.
I went from Ubuntu to Xubuntu one Ubuntu started adding all their bloaty window UI. I stuck with it for a long time but recently it started acting up on me so I switched to Linux mint xfce since it’s the closest experience and feels a bit more stable. I figure if it ain’t broke…
CorelLinux
First time I mucked with Linux I don’t think there were any formal distros yet. Had to rawrite the kernel to my full height 5.25” 100mb hard drive
POS Ubuntu giving me repo cancer every other week making me think Linux for desktop was not ready.
Then I tried Debian (and XFCE) and realized Ubuntu was just on some drugs and eventually landed on Fedora after demoing some distros.
Ubuntu really was a big step forward for ease of setup back when it first came out, but other distros have since caught up. I think the ultimate success of an open source project is when they make themselves obsolete because they had such a big impact on the eco system at large. I think Ubuntu achieved their main goal, but once they did that they ended up adding a bunch of bloat to distinguish themselves as the intro user option.
I fucking hate anime
Believe it or not, I don’t think this is technically from an anime. One of the characters is (the short one in front), but the picture itself appears to be from DeviantArt. The other character, as far as I can tell, is an OC. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong.) Even the DeviantArt post just calls him “Anime Boy”.
The short character in front appears to be a character named Tomoko Kuroki, the main character in the show “No Matter How I Look At It, It’s You Guys Fault I’m Not Popular!” (It’s apparently usually referred to by a shortening of it’s Japanese title: “WataMote”.)
I’m a little surprised I learned all this just from a reverse image search.
DevianArt even worse
Noted!
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Biolinux so ubuntu based… Now still on ubunut but considering moving to debian.
Fedora Core 4…? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we’ll get there.
Linux Mit, im still loving cinnamon
Ubuntu -> Linux Mint -> Pop!_OS -> MX linux -> EndeavourOS
I started with Ubuntu, but since I was a kid at the time, wifi not working scared me away as I only ever knew of “everything works out of the box”. After 2 years, I took a shot at linux again and I gotta say that it was mint that helped me build enough confidence in fixing any issues myself and to try other harder distros like arch. Now after all the exploring/distro hopping, I have settled down on opensuse as a daily driver, but mint will always be one of my favorites, and will always recommend it to any newbie.
@Waffelson First effort was Corel Linux back in 1999. The experience was so bad that I didn’t try linux again until 2008, and it finally stuck 6 years ago. Now i’m all in.
CentOS But now it seems that it has withdrawn from the stage of history.
Hey, another CentOS guy! I ran my home phone on that with Asterisk for years, on a dual pentium machine that was already ancient.
When I rebuilt it years later as a VM I went to Ubuntu LTS, but CentOS was my first! It’s been so long I don’t even remember what, as a newbie, drove me to choose that one.
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.
Using on a computer, Debian back in 2011. On my own machine I first went with an Ubuntu dual boot, then later switched to Linux Mint and haven’t switched to anything else since. I just love how Mint was able to give new life to the same old trooper laptop I had since 2013.
ChromeOS (more it’s Debian Container)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Distrohopping every view Weeks
KDE Neon
NixOS
