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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux? (lemmy.cloudaf.site)

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I'll go first, I took my mom's college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to run my games on it, and man wine was not nearly as easy to use (or as good) as it is nowadays. So I switched back to windows until around 2015 or so when I spent the next few years trying to replace windows as much as I could. Once valve released proton, I switched fully and have t looked back, unless my still there windows partition tries to take over my computer when I restart it at least.

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[–] test1@calendario-lunar.com 1 points 1 year ago

Linux SLS distribution, circa 1993.

[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Slax live CD when I was around 13 in the early 2000s.

Still use it for dev env and servers (Debian) but prefer Win/Mac for a desktop manager

[–] stown@sedd.it 1 points 1 year ago

Bought a book/CD combo from Borders for SUSE Linux when I was in middle school around 2003. Installed it but then went back to windows when I realized networking didn't work.

[–] tuxrandom@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm basically a "native" Linux user. When my parents finally decided to get a computer in 2008 or so (I was in elementary school back then), it got Ubuntu installed on it, so my first contact points with modern technology were 100% on Linux as anything invented after the 1950s wasn't used at all in elementary back then.

When I got my first own computer a few years later, the guy who guided my dad and me through building it suggested installing both Linux Mint and Windows on it. The Linux installation died on me after a few months for unknown reasons, I had no idea how to fix it and our helper disappeared into severe personal problems, so I used Windows only for quite a while until I finally started to really get into Linux inside VMs and was finally able to reinstall it on the bare metal.
As I had always prefered Linux, it quickly became my daily driver again.

Fast forward to today, Linux is the only OS on my laptop and the main OS of my gaming PC. I use Manjaro KDE on both.

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