slackware around 1996. the install was about thirteen floppies.
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I attempted to boot Mandrake/Mandrivia on an old laptop once and failed, then I mucked around in Slackware's live CD for an afternoon. The first thing I actually installed and used daily was Ubuntu 10.04.
RedHat 5.2 in 1998. The manual that came with the box set was amazing.
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Fedora Core 2 :)
rocky linux 8 on a vm (rocky is a tablet os to me)
Ubuntu back in 09 or so.
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.
Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os
Ubuntu 12 or 14 on a hdd
Tried Redhat in the late 90s, but I really started using Linux with Mandrake, a few years later.
MkLinux around 1997, but mostly NetBSD back then.
I'm not sure if Yggdrasil or Slackware, which we tried out at the old university computers. But quickly Debian became so much more flexible.
Slackware, probably in 1997. My cousin lent me his copy, had like 100 floppies for the install.
Linux Mint 20 (MATE).
Almost Arch or Gentoo due to trolls.
I'd also like to mention that was when I got my first computer and I first had to figure out what's an OS.
I got it used, and it already had ~~Windows~~ free DVD burner pre-installed. I didn't have any flash drive, why would I anyway? I just managed to dig out one single DVD-RW.
I found a distro that would install on the windows file system and boot. Apparently it was slackware based didn't have a concept in my head of package managers couldn't figure out how to install gaim (now pidgin) gave up. Didn't go back for another 4 years doing C in college. Didn't look back from there.
Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.
Ubuntu 6.04. It was really simple to get it up and running even back then.
Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.
I used Ubuntu, during the GNOME 2 + Compiz days. God I wish for those days to have a comeback. I've kept a bit of an eye on Wayfire for that reason.
Something that ran from loadlin, I can't remember. Slackware, probably.
open suse (or was it mandrake? idk) around 2006. I remember trying it, and thinking "wow. This is trash" and then sticking with windows for 10 more years until giving ubuntu a try (and sticking to it). I tried other non-debian linuxes since then, but they all gave me that "wow, trash"-kind of feeling
Xandros on an eeePC 901
tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
Fedora Core, I don't remember exactly which version it was.
Ubuntu 10.04.
A walk down memory lane
I received a free CD of 10.04 with a computer magazine that I purchased every time I travelled.
The CD was neglected for the better part of that year, until I tried it out of curiosity. I remember setting up a dual boot configuration around two weeks in. I removed Windows around eve of 2011 and never looked back.
Since then I distro hopped every six months but kept coming back to Linux Mint as it nailed the balance between stability and UX, especially for the home machine that would be used by people from diverse age groups.
In those years, GNOME’s UX regressed so terribly with its 3.0 release, that Canonical’s Unity and Mint’s Cinnamon & MATE popped up as a response. One of those didn’t make it by the end of that decade. In those same years, Canonical started alienating its users with questionable decisions. Fedora and Manjaro became stable enough to be recommended for actual daily use. The 2010s was a wild ride.
Though by the start of 2020s, I entered Apple’s walled gardens as I no longer had time to troubleshoot my devices and tools, and expected those to work reliably.
I still use Linux on the home machine as well as the homelab. But I patiently wait for the day Linux is stable for daily use on phones. :-)
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Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago
Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers
Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.
Debian 4 lyf
Ubuntu studio 🤣🤣🤣
Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara
Kind of just been going down the convenience route.
SuSE linux 4.2 about 1994-6 ish? Fond memories of having to roll my own modelines to get crt monitors working. Used the various versions until the sell out to Novell and the controversy with Microsoft. Then a really big gap with some macs and now I’ve just started using Mint on a mini itx machine I’ve put together just for that use.
Pop!_OS two years ago, Pop!_OS today.
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
KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good
Ubuntu on an orangepi 5 when it released, now Linux Mint dual-booted to windows (haven't booted into windows for ages now) on my main rig. I'll figure out making VR work at some point I hope, it's all I really use windows for now.
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years later❤️.
My first Linux experience was trying to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Power Mac G4 in college
Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)