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    Who was your first? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 8 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] summerof69@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

    I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.

    [–] FabianRY@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

    Technically the first distro i used was Lubuntu 10.04, but it was only a live cd because i was 13 by then and i was terrified that i installed linux and my father got angry at me if i left any evidence. The first one i used as a full SO to use as i like, Raspbian, so debian (wheezy, i believe).

    [–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    *ubuntu (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu 10.04 -> Kubuntu 12.04) -> Debian 8 (KDE). Debian since then.

    [–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

    Ubuntu

    [–] noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

    Ubuntu studio 🤣🤣🤣

    [–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)

    [–] Enkrod@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    Ubuntu, then Mint, now Arch, but I'm too inexperienced for it and want to try Kubuntu for native KDE with Plasma desktop.

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    [–] Elliot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Ubuntu

    [–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara

    Kind of just been going down the convenience route.

    [–] Fint0034@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    why the fedora route

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    [–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 1 points 8 months ago

    My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.

    [–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

    rocky linux 8 on a vm (rocky is a tablet os to me)

    [–] schmalls@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

    I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.

    [–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

    Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago

    [–] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

    Debian 4 lyf

    [–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

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

    [–] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 1 points 8 months ago

    Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers

    [–] 0x30507DE@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago

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

    [–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 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

    [–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago

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

    [–] multicolorKnight@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

    Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Endeavour, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.

    [–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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

    [–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 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.

    [–] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 8 months ago

    Xandros on an eeePC 901

    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 8 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.

    [–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Debian was first Linux, Sun was first UNIX.

    [–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 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.

    [–] knight@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Boot/root floppies early '92

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    [–] logicslayer@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

    Fedora Core, I don't remember exactly which version it was.

    [–] balp@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

    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.

    [–] shapptastic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

    Slackware, probably in 1997. My cousin lent me his copy, had like 100 floppies for the install.

    [–] emhl@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    the family computer running ubuntu from 2010 on. I used it mainly for Web browsing and creating presentations for School. I was able to run League of Legends (that was in 2014 i think) through wine but i think it crashed in about 50% of Games during the loading screen :D. Linux gaming has truly come far since then (and now LoL doesn't run on Linux at all because of Riots Rootkit)

    [–] Tai6VohT@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

    slackware around 1996. the install was about thirteen floppies.

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