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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Ubuntu back in 2014. Followed by Elementary not long after
Still rocking Ubuntu myself, might give mint a try as I’ve had issues with updates bricking Ubuntu.
I don’t use Ubuntu anymore, and haven’t as my main in a long time.
My longest running distro is probably Arch, which I’ve recently switched back to after a year on Fedora and a year on NixOS
Nice 😀 ❤️
It was DSLinux, Linux for the Nintendo DS. I tried it while hacking with the DS just to try that “Linux” everyone was talking about. I installed Ubuntu on my PC short after it.
Zorin OS because they said it was windows like
Kali Linux. Because I was a kid who wanted to be a hackerman.
My monitor is visible to a public footpath and I honestly am waiting for the day that I get a knock on the door from the cops because Jo Public saw me do a system update
sudo pacman -Syu 💀
❤️ Ah yes, the hacker-man vibes!
After that I used Ubuntu with XFCE for 2 years, Now settled in Fedora with Gnome for like 4 years straight.
Watching something compiling is kinda like the reward for getting it to compile in the first place…
Sadly, Ubuntu. I quickly moved on to debian…and ultimately landed with Arch, my true love for many years. I use Arch, btw.
Nowt wrong with a gateway distro if it gets you out of windows land
Ubuntu at the start of my college years, dabbled with Arch in the senior year. Huge learning experience, but ultimately I went back to Windows because gaming support was nonexistent at the time. Kept the dual boot up and kept it running Arch during the day for coursework, Windows when I was all done.
Aside from an Ubuntu VM for my last job, I didn’t really get back into it until the Steam Deck launched a few years ago, and at the start of this year I decided to set up a dual boot again once I got a new full new desktop build. Tried Bazzite, really didn’t like how restricted I felt, immediately wiped it and tried out CachyOS instead, and that’s my daily driver today.
And just this past week I finally decided got into selfhosting, something I’ve been eyeballing for ages but never really got around to. Proxmox on the host, Debian VM, pretty standard and works amazingly.
Probably Knoppix on some Laptop my dad brought home at around 2001-2002. Still remember tinkering with it and having no idea what I am doing haha. Good times.
I bought one of those Guide to Linux books back in like 2008 that came with an Ubuntu install disc. Installed it on an old family PC but I didn’t really know what I was doing so I didn’t get far.
Then in college I used Mint on my desktop and Peppermint on my Acer Aspire netbook. Around graduation I bought a Chromebook and ran Xubuntu in Crouton.
Went a few years without Linux and recently dual-booted with Pop OS on my gaming PC. Feels good.
I used slackware, btw
Oh yeah well I still boot Bell Labs Unix that I load off of punch cards
^^^That’s ^^^awesome ^^^that ^^^you ^^^used ^^^Slackware, ^^^I’m ^^^just ^^^joking
Slackware was the shit in the 90’s. I bounced around slack, Debian, and a bunch of other floppy based distros. My first install was onto my Amiga, before I got a new pc. Good times
Ubunutu for a server in ~2019.
Arch for my workstation Jan 2025
Ubuntu, as they used to send free CD packs to distribute. Was fun booting into live CD on computers.
OpenSuse with compiz going hard on an old laptop
The first was about 1995-ish Redhat on school computers, after that was Suse on a 2000s laptop, and currently Mint+Mx on a self-built pc. Hardware support and ease of use has come a long way since then.
Chrome OS, obviously. jk
