Obviously Hannah Montana Linux.
It has been created to “attract young users to Linux”.
Might want to update their “kids these days love this” reference list a bit 😄
I thought that was the ONLY distro…?!
Puppy.
Don’t? Arch is less scary and more annoying.
I vote for LFS and maybe Guix
Who TF is scared by Mint?
Did a clean upgrade/install of Mint about 10 hours ago. I’m back to business as usual. Minor tweaks, no tinkering.
I installed mint, and my Linux knowledge (little to none) plateaued because it never breaks. I never have to fix anything. I’m the iPad kid of Linux.
How dare it work!
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Since people fear parentheses, GNU Guix.
Man, i’m a NixOS user so probably also biased because i got used to the nix language, but legitimately all the parentheses in guix confuse the hell out of me lol
I also feared them prior to using and writing my own config. But later, I found out they have packages that highlight different parentheses depth with different colours (rainbow-delimiter), auto insert missing parens (parinfer) and whatnot. This makes the process of working with them a lot easier!
Hannah Montana Linux or Biebian
UwUntu
Slackware still exists, if they survive they’ll be nigh immortal.
slackware
<graybeard> Way back when, in the bad old days of ISA cards and IRQ collisions and who knows what “90% soundblaster compatible” means, slackware had amazing install images. you had some dusty old 386 with 5 1/4" drives? Oh and you added an ISA SCSI card so you could use one of those new fangled ZIP drives? Yep…just look thru the ftp site and I bet you’d find what you needed.
Mind you, still had to write all of your own /etc/init.d scripts, and every other config file under the sun, but you could get almost any machine up and running before all them fancy new modular kernel drivers came into existence. </graybeard>
Can confirm. Been living for far too long at this point
Nyarch
The one you toggle into the switches on a PiDP-11.
Don’t run Linux, run the OG Unix. Don’t use a desktop, get a mainframe.
Mint is goat
Remember to make a backup pipeline with Timeshift and you’ll be fine
Not Linux, but 9front or that thing they wrap the gnu Mach kernel in.
I feel like a historian reading hieroglyphics trying to understand this 😭
Neither existed when I installed Linux the first time.
When was this? Arch Linux was initially released in 2002, about a year before I tried knoppix for the first time.
What was your first distro, unless you used Linux before distros, if so what was your first installation experience like?
wow, I forgot knoppix was a thing, memory unlocked
I didn’t use knoppix a lot, but I did use Mandriva more, and then Ubuntu was released and I daily drove it back then
Same!
Around '97, playing with MKLinux.
Wtf reading about this, such a weird system
Linux running on top of a mach micro kernel, kind of like paravirtualized. And then the userspace and xfree86 ran on linux? And FVWM? How was that?
And then you could run Lisa apps?
