Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry

Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)

I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

    Centos in like 2008… idk the version, i had to learn how to set up a basic internal http server with a sql database or something from zero. It was fun.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    I started back on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It was so much prettier than Windows, it got 11 yr. old me into hosting web servers

  • SeanMEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Officially it was Raspberry Pi OS although I had messed around with Mint and Ubuntu a bit before that.

  • GGNZEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Red Hat mid 90s and then Slackware, Red Hat was more polished but I learnt so much more from Slackware.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

    My first one was OpenSUSE in the 00-years. I was hardly able to get it up and running on my worn out, home-build desktop.

    Tried again later with ubuntu (Gnome) on an old Thinkpad and was taken aback about how smooth it ran just ootb.

  • tiredofsametab
    2•2 years ago

    I forget whether I did Mandrake or Redhat first. This was on a 3.5" floppy, heh.

    Old GenToo, when I finally got off of dial-up, was an interesting experience. Building everything from the ground up definitely taught me a lot.

    These days, I mostly use Ubuntu at home (and various at work). I may give mint a shot, however.

  • PrincessOfChaosEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I played with SuSE 6.2 for a while in 1999 but only really turned to Linux in 2001 with Mandrake Linux 8.0.

  • ggnoredoEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Not sure but it was slackware or red hat in 1997