Windows 3.11 and Kubuntu 6.06LTS (still have the CD!)

My first OS was whatever ran on a Commodore 64. I guess the Commodore kernel and Basic?

My first distro was whatever version of Fedora was current in the fall of 2008. I’d gone to university that year and my laptop crapped out. Couldn’t afford a legit Windows license at the time to replace it, and I’m pretty sure I just remembered that Red Hat was a thing and found Fedora that way. One thumb drive and 16 years later, still using linux, so I guess that was about the only good thing to come from my abortive first attempt at higher education.

Comodore 64 os in the late 80’s then msdos, win 3.1, etc. First Linux distro i believe was either slackware or debian.

Desktop: Windows XP

Linux: Probably Raspbian on a Pi 2 b

Tech has come a long way since then lol

The first OS I recall using is Windows 7 (yes I’m young), and for Linux, I switched from Windows 11 to Linux Mint, which is what I use in the present day.

My first OS was DOS 5.0, I switched to linux with Fedora core 6

Windows 3.11

Mac OS 7. By the mid-2000s, I adopted Arch Linux after looking into some other Linux distributions.

First os: technically the Wii’s os and android

First Linux: Ubuntu 16.04 (I remember it like it was yesterday 🥲)

On my first PC it was DOS 2.0, but before that I had a Vic-20, then a Commodore 64.

My first OS was most likely DR DOS 3.41

For my daily driver desktop PCs that was followed by

• MS-DOS 5.0
• Windows 3.11
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows XP
• Windows 7
• Windows 10

On the linux side, I got started with Gentoo, experimented with several lightweight distributions for an old laptop and had a Mint VM for a few years. These days I run Ubuntu on a couple of servers and in WSL. Never got around to using it as my main desktop OS.

For university I had (in order) an iBook G3, a MacBook and a MacBook Pro, so you can add most of macOS 10.x to that list.

Windows XP on a laptop. Then Windows 7 on a new laptop. After that, Windows 10 and Windows 11 on desktop and another new laptop.

Tried Debian on my laptop. Later, switched completely to Linux Mint on desktop. Distro-hopped to Kubuntu (KDE Plasma). Wanted to get Plasma 6 immediately after release, so I installed EndeavourOS on my desktop and laptop.

Now switched to pure Arch Linux on my desktop PC, didn’t boot Windows on any of my private PCs for months (no dual boot, only GPU passthrough VM).

Windows XP

First OS was DOS. Then Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, then Debian when this happened.

My desktop OS history:

1. Windows 98
2. Windows XP
3. Windows Vista
4. Windows 7
5. Ubuntu
6. Linux Mint
7. Antergos
8. Arch Linux
9. NixOS

I’ve used others, but not enough to warrant a place in the list above.