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?

  • Culf@feddit.dk
    1·
    6 minutes ago

    I started using Linux this year. I first tried out Debian, but then switched to mint. Has been very happy with mint every since, so I don’t think I will switch again in the near future.

  • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    2 hours ago

    I believe it was slackware. it was gifted to teenage me ca 1994, was on the CD of some magazine.

    I wanted to try it, so went dual boot. it (or I?) partitioned my 800MB hard disk into a 300MB and an 800MB partition. stupid young me thought this was great and I just gained 300MB. when I noticed date corruption, stupid young me started to copy over important data to the assumed good partition. things didn’t end well.

    I took a two year break from Linux afterwards 🤣

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Red Hat, way back in the 90s - must have been 5.0 IIRC.

    Since then I went through Ubuntu and now landed on Fedora.

  • mrgnz@feddit.org
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I guess it was suse or red hat somewhen end of 90s or beginning of 2000. Anyhow I didn’t like KDE back in the days and haven’t touched it since. Although the screenshots I’ve seen of the latest kde looked kind of good. But I’m mostly running arch or manjaro today and prefer gnome or some tiling manager like herbstluftwm.

  • crentist@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Way back: Ubuntu live CD. More recent history: Pop!_OS > Zorin OS > Fedora.

    Happily been running Fedora for like 2 years now.

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 hours ago

    It’s hard to remember but it was some version of Mandrake probably in the early 2000’s. At the time, they were one of the only distros (along with Red Hat) to offer an installation GUI. As a first time user I found partitioning a hard drive too complex to do on the command line.

    I only used Mandrake for a short time before reverting to windows but it wasn’t long after that when I came back and then started using Debian. Since then I went back to Windows then to OpenSuSe, then Debian, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and now Pop!_OS.

  • seestheday@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Slackware in 1998 I think, from a cd that came in a book I bought while in university.

    It didn’t stick, but it demystified it and I’ve used a lot of flavours of *nix since then.

    I remember not being able to get sound to work at all on my pentium computer.

      • Billegh@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Slackware was my first intel Linux. First linux ever was red hat for DEC alpha. Quite weird after OSF/1.

        Still use slackware, though mostly now actual work is done on debian, arch, and alpine.

  • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    BackTrack 5 because I was too poor to pay for my own Wi-Fi back then, so I had to become creative heheh

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Ubuntu 6.06 was my first Linux install. I still remember the pain of ndiswrapper to get Windows WiFi drivers working on Linux.