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#myfirstdistro

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Saw this hashtag and shared memories, will join too.
#MyFirstDistro
- installed on my own PC was an SuSE Linux of 10.x version, somewhen in 2005 or 2006 (that late just because I started to own a PC in 2003), so just shortly after the acquisition by Novel and rebranding to openSUSE. I use openSUSE nowadays too!
- first known to me was a RedHat that an older brother of my friend tried, from whom I borrowed a book about it and read it, since I didn't have any computer then in 2000 or so.

Just discovered #myfirstdistro and here's mine: #Suse #Linux 6.0 - It happened at a second-hand shop for hard- and software; between Data Becker and MS Frontpage boxes there was a copy of Suse. The back-cover had a screenshot of what looked very similar to Chigago shell, just a little different. It was #KDE 2. That was when I first realised that there are obviously other systems to operate PCs. I bought that box for 5 Deutsche Mark. 🙃 One week later I managed to successfully start #XFree86 😅

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#MyFirstDistro was some early version of Red Hat in the late 90's. My dad's IT guy from work installed it on a decommissioned box and gave it to me when he found out I was interested in trying Linux.

I couldn't believe how much software you got by default FOR FREE. All the games, the web browser, the word processing!!!

My first Linux distribution was LinuxPPC which I got on the May 1999 CD for MacAddict magazine when I was eight years old. Didn't really know how to do anything in the terminal back then (that'd take a couple years) but I messed around so much with early GNOME and KDE apps, they felt so alien.

My first distro, if we mean *nix systems in general, was Solaris back in undergrad. It was cool and all, but really just introduced me to the idea that there was more than Windows and Mac out there.

But many years later, I tried Linux Mint (sometime around Olivia, IIRC). That caught my attention—it made a system that Windows slogged on go much faster. First I used MATE, then Cinnamon, then XFCE. And when I found myself hankering for more efficiency than Mint XFCE could provide, I dove into Arch Linux, and that was when the addiction proved permanent.

#myfirstdistro was #Slackware in 97ish. I was going to school for CS, and even thought I bought a C compiler for my Amiga, it was too different to use for school assignments. A classmate introduced me to the idea of trying #Linux . I picked up Slackware because it sounded neat. It took me 3-4 days to get #Xwindow working on a Compaq laptop, but I got it working, and that was the start of my long journey with Linux. Slackware teaches you a lot about how Linux works.

#MyFirstDistro

My first ever distro was an early Puppy Linux version in late 2003, a Windows XP PC my Ex had developed a fault, it was under warranty and I found Puppy Linux to be an ideal temporary solution while waiting for a warranty call out (two weeks wait iirc)

That gave me the taste of Linux, which after trying Slax shortly after grew into quite a distro hopping habit for a while

https://wiki.x220.co.uk/my_linux_journey
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#MyFirstDistro eh?

First distribution I daily drove was Zorin OS. It was really cool, though the version I used had a weird bug where one of the applets on the bottom right wouldn't load the first time. I always had to login again. It was very pretty though.

I think the first distro I ever tried with a live USB was Ubuntu. I'm not 100% sure though.