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)
H J Lu’s boot/root, followed by MCC Interim, followed by Yggrasil on CD
Knoppix, on a live CD. Then shorty after, Aurox Linux, distributed as a number of CD with a magazine. Around 2004-2005. Then Mandriva.
Fedora 6. Had to use it to build a server for my A+ class. Good times.
Some version of Ubuntu around the time they were doing the Ubuntu phone
My first distro was SlackWare 7.
I’m not anywhere near my desktop(s) but it has largely been an Ubuntu box of differing flavors.
Though I experimented with Yoper, Knollix, SuSe, Mint, and a few other distros.
Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.
Oh, and writing the XConfig file with all your monitor timings. Sweet memories…
The first distro I used was Ubuntu as part of a computer class at school, but it was preinstalled on a school computer. The first distro I installed on a personal computer was Arch because le reddit said it was le epic hackerman’s IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE TO INSTALL distro. It installed, and after that I didn’t use it because my favorite Windows apps couldn’t work.
Linux Mint. It’s been a while since I used Mint now, but I do missTimeshift
mine too. now im on kubuntu, still use timeshift. timeshift and czkafka [like fslint-gui] are two of my go to tools.
Gentoo circa 2002. Soooooo over my capabilities at the time
Redhat. I can’t remember the version, but I found it at Fry’s electronics in early 2000. Using Fedora now.
I think it was Debian! My dad had an old cd of it and we live booted into it for fun like almost 20 years ago.
My first distro was Ubuntu. Don’t ask why.
Ubuntu -> Manjaro -> Pop! OS
Debian… would recommend
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