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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    Puppy Linux on an old Celeron @ 333MHz, with 160MB of RAM and 4GB of disk space.

    I was amazed at the speed compared to Windows XP and even 98SE. It weighed about 100MB but had quite a few applications like mtpaint, Inkscape, Abiword, some spreadsheet program (I don't remember which was it, don't think it was GNUmeric), mplayer, some lightweight browser (I think it was Midori), even XChat.

    The only (and BIG) problem is that you basically ran everything as root.

    Some time later I bought a more powerful PC (Intel something dual core @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM and 500GB disk), and used the pre installed Windows 7 for some time before installing Ubuntu (I think 12.04) and I've been using it since.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Xubuntu in a vm on win10, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Kde, and now Nix.

    I used Fedora the longest and OpenSuse the shortest as Kde reminded me so much of horrible windows. I've also tried a lot of other distros in a vm or live usb, Linux Mint, Mubuntu, Void linux, the one without any Gnu component(Artix?) and some other ones. I also have ISOs of some other esoteric Oses on my computer, DebianHurd, Redox, can't even remember rn but I'm yet to try them out.

    I'm mentally restraining myself from distrohopping to Guix and or FreeBSD as I doubt I'd have the same workflow I have now on NixOS. To have distrohopped this much in the space of 18 months is why I'm a failed Javascript programmer.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    My first Linux experience was trying to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Power Mac G4 in college

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    Archlinux if you don't count the time when I was five. I install Ubuntu then a series of packages to make it "look and feel" like Mac os. After that I was disappointed with how janky it was as a Mac clone and switching back to windows.

    I was crazy about macs when I was a kid. When I finally got one, I enjoyed the polish but ultimately found it limiting. After 15 years; about six years on macos, seven on Windows. I played with archlinux in an emulator for a few months before I nuked my system and never went back, thanks wine/DXVK!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Endeavour, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Ubuntu, specifically the netbook edition.

    That little guy struggled with Windows 7 Starter, but it got some pep in it's step when Linux was installed!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Debian was first Linux, Sun was first UNIX.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Pretty sure Linux Mint back in 2009-2010 that my brother forced all of our family PC's to use. Now over 14 years later I have made it back to Linux Mint and oh how I've missed it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Mandrake 8.2

    I have fond memories of it, as it weaned me off Windows.

    Edit: Actually, Knoppix was my first foray into Linux, but Mandrake was the first Linux distro that I actually installed.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Seems appropriate that he’s about to snap her neck.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    After not realizing there were updates available for over three years, you notice a little exclamation point in the corner and apply all of em.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Xandros on an eeePC 901

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Ubuntu because I didn't know anything about it and wanted to see if I could use it to fix my win10 account on my old laptop.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    Epic trolled by my friend, my first was Gentoo

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    i honestly didn't do too much linux growing up; i was more involved with radio shack and trsdos and then win 3.1 (since we only had the one family computer; tandy sensation, whoo). then onto windows 2000. it was probably around the early to mid 2000s when i experimented with fedora with one of my coworkers; that was probably the first time i actually did a lot beyond basic commands ssh'ing into a web server on a web host.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu back in the day before enshitification.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Got in just after Dapper, those days fooling around with compiz were the best. Went distrohopping when Unity happened.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Debian in the nineties :) Watched the towers fall on slashdot...

    Now on bazzite, it's also glorious.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Show me your #debian scars.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    +1
    I fondly remember having the bootloader on a floppy to dual boot my own machine due to some limitation about where Linux lived on my hard disk, but honestly it was probably more of a knowledge limitation at the time!

    First shell was on a Debian 1.x machine in my friend’s living room since they had broadband.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    SteamOS, just seeing how friendly and similar-to-windows KDE looked (and proton running all the games I cared about) gave me all the confidence I needed to install fedora and later nobara on my desktop

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Technically zorin, but kubuntu is why I stuck with it. It's what made me like linux...

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    Kubuntu 8.04 was my first, with the KDE 4 demo, it was pretty as fuck compared to Windows XP that came with that PC

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    Raspbian (Buster) for my first; Kubuntu for my longest, and still happily enjoying it!

    Call me a normie if you must, I need shit to work and I like it lookin' pretty.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    There's dozens of us! Actually I couldn't scrounge together enough floppies, but eventually somehow came across a CD-ROM, probably from someone at school... And I was a bit later, more like '96 maybe...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    I got the CD a little later, it's still in the basement somewhere. All of it ran on a 386 in an XT fold open casse, with a monochrome graphics card and an amber CRT display.
    If you needed more grognard nostalgia.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    First server was Debian in 2002 or so. First desktop was the first version of Ubuntu (4.10). Back then, they'd send you a free CD upon request, anywhere in the world. Dial-up was still pretty common in Australia at the time, so not having to download it was very useful. That was one of the things that really drove adoption of Ubuntu.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

    Several floppies of Slackware.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Using on a computer, Debian back in 2011. On my own machine I first went with an Ubuntu dual boot, then later switched to Linux Mint and haven't switched to anything else since. I just love how Mint was able to give new life to the same old trooper laptop I had since 2013.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    The first I tried was Ubuntu 7.04 but I didn't stick with it and went back to XP. Until I ended up with a hardware setup that wouldn't work on Windows XP (widescreen monitor + Intel graphics driver with no widescreen mode options) but worked perfectly on Ubuntu 9.10. I never truly went back to Windows since.

    Tried a few other distros in 2011 then switched to Arch for a couple years, Xubuntu for a couple years, Ubuntu GNOME for 7-8 years, and finally switched to Fedora last year.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    When I saw the numbers "7.04" I immediately heard the login drum-like sound "bu-du-bup" and remembered Feisty Fawn. It's one of my fondest computer memories. It felt like a friend.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    OpenSUSE back in the early 2000s. Since my parents got a new PC and the old one from '99 wasnt able to run Windows XP properly

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Debian 4 lyf

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Slackware 4. Nothing like having to compile your kernel depending on the hardware you hand-selected for compatibility. Then entering your monitor specs in the config files by hand to get WindowMaker to run correctly.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    I was thinking of this. Searching for the monitor manuals to fix the wonder than it should desktop. I wanted more resolution but it just made the desktop wider and higher than the monitor with the same resolution so it scrolled ahahaha! It was red hat ~5 (I think) in my case!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I believe it was Ubuntu, likely something like 8.04, but only in a VM. Then a few years later I tried Fedora, DamnSmallLinux, and maybe one or two others. I didn't install Linux on actual hardware until 2017 when I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and never looked back, though I tried it from a bootable USB a few times years before that. Currently on Ubuntu 22.04 on my desktop, my servers all run Ubuntu or Proxmox (Debian).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.

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