I’m new to #Lemmy and making myself feel at home by posting a bit!
My first Linux distribution was elementary OS in early March 2020. Since then, I’ve tried Manjaro, Arch Linux, Fedora, went back to Manjaro, and since early January 2023, I’ve landed on Debian as my home in the #Linux world.
What was your first Linux distro?
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Red Hat, back when that was a distro. It was a long time ago now and my toying with it didn’t last long; and began an obsession with hardware RAID…
genderfluid fetch spotted!!! also im not sure which was first but i use arch and openbsd ;3
Linux Mint. I made a dumb decision to install it right away thinking it’s just like Windows. Boy was i wrong. Took me years until I felt ready to switch to Linux.
I use Arch BTW
I think I tried to compile Gentoo about 20 years ago for some reason… Took many hours, and I don’t remember even getting it running. Later I tried dual booting Ubuntu, but ended up using Windows all the time since that’s where my games were. Started using Linux only (Xubuntu) some time around 2010.
Mandrake! It was a fucking disaster! Fortunately, I came back later using Kubuntu and had a much better experience.
My first was Ubuntu in the early 2000s, I think CDs were being distributed by the IT department in one of the faculties, then SUSE but Linux didn’t stick with me at the time. In 2018 I installed Manjaro which helped me make the switch to arch. I’ve also got Debian on a server and fedora on a laptop
I somehow could not find the Mint install so I went with Ubuntu Mate. It was fine.
Red Hat, before the enterprise stuff, back in 1999. Installed from a CD found in a book from the library
Same for me, it was Red Hat Linux 6.1 (Cartman). I got it from a CD on the front of a PC magazine.
Damn! Same here, red hat 99, but switched to Debian quite fast
Oh, back in 1999s, very epic! ❤️
I’ve got a Red Hat from '99! Found in grandpa’s garage.
YES! That was the same distro that was my entry, it came along with the book Linux for dummies. However mine came on a single CD. Must have been the “lite” edition 😄
Nice! The one I found looked like this. I remember picking it up because I thought the logo looked cool. I think it was 5.2 though
This was very similar to the box I had but in my case it was mostly white. And the manual was waaaay bigger. Like almost the size of a phone book. I bought mine in 1999 too. Installed from CD. I bought mine for $110 from a stationary shop (since I lived in a student flat and my flatmates would have probably murdered me if I’d downloaded it over dial up that also had a monthly download limit). Good times lol.
Lubuntu :O and Kali linux
Ubuntu, and the experience was crap lol.
Then I got to try Debian on a server and it was much nicer.
Then I saw Torvalds uses Fedora, and given that he also disliked Debian and Ubuntu for their lack of end user ease, I switched and have been happy ever since.
Seriously though, GNOME 40 really should not be the default DE. It made me think Linux UI was years behind Windows when it was actually the opposite with proven DEs like XFCE, KDE, and GNOME 3/2 etc.
I think it was SuSE 5.1, we’re talking 1997. We got a CD at a show but I can’t remember which or where.
Mine was slackware in I think 1997?
Slackware in the early mid-nineties. But of course there was other Unix variants before that. And what was it called, OS/2 or something like that?
Knoppix live cd
RedHat, I had to recompile the kernel to be SoundBlaster compatible so that I could play Doom with sound on my 486.
