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 5.1, which I quickly abandoned after learning the hard way about winmodems
Cool, so I’m not the only one here 😁. Mine was also RHL 5.x, can’t remember the exact minor version, whatever they sold on CDs in 1999. I then switched to FreeBSD for a year or so.
RedHat, I had to recompile the kernel to be SoundBlaster compatible so that I could play Doom with sound on my 486.
Ubuntu back in the Gnome 2 days.
litterally arch btw
Turbo Linux in the late 90s. It didn’t go well.
Later I gave Redhat a shot - 5.0 or 5.1, I forget. Stayed with RH and now Fedora.
I inherited a Sony Vaio in 2009 which was really slow with windows, but unsurprisingly was ok once I swapped that out for Ubuntu 9.04. Took me a while to get the brightness up as the buttons didn’t respond, but I kept that machine running for 7 years, the HDD controller died in the end so it stopped detecting any HDD.
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.
My first Linux install was Slackware sometime in the late 90’s. I didn’t really use it though, as I never managed to get it working with my dial-up Internet. Stupid winmodems.
The first distribution I actually used was Mandrake. Others I’ve used since then include Suse, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Manjaro, and EndeavourOS. I’ve landed on using Manjaro on both my main desktop and laptop, though I have secondary machines running Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, and EndeavourOS.
Knoppix circa 2004-2005, It was in a cd that came from chip.de. I had no clue what linux was back then. I know even less now.
slackware, from floppy circa 1996
Mandrake -> Whatever came on the Linux Magazine CD -> Backtrack -> Arch
Mine was slackware in I think 1997?
My first distro was the Asahi Linux Beta which was using Arch Linux ARM. EDIT: Now I use Void Linux
Ubuntu, before Unity and eventually Gnome desktop 🫢
Ubuntu
