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

    fedora 💀

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

    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. :-)

    [–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago
    [–] hamid@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
    [–] waz 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    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.

    [–] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

    Pop!_OS two years ago, Pop!_OS today.

    [–] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 8 months ago

    Opensuse without knowing that it was Linux 20 years ago. Knowing was 3 years later with Mandrake.

    [–] Dragster39@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

    Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago

    [–] Areexor@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

    Elementary OS 6 Years ago

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

    is he forcing her to look at the screen?

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

    No, she imagines how an actor whom she asked to say vulgar words on a dictaphone strokes her head, in reality she strokes her head with her hand, which the actor was holding

    [–] halfbyte@mastodon.social 1 points 8 months ago

    @Waffelson First effort was Corel Linux back in 1999. The experience was so bad that I didn't try linux again until 2008, and it finally stuck 6 years ago. Now i'm all in.

    [–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

    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.

    [–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 1 points 8 months ago

    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.

    [–] noisypine@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

    Tried Redhat in the late 90s, but I really started using Linux with Mandrake, a few years later.

    [–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

    Edubuntu, IT@School

    [–] AppleMango@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

    Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os

    [–] PopcornTin@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

    Several floppies of Slackware.

    [–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

    Some 10+ year old Ubuntu version probably. Before Unity so 10.04 maybe. Can't say

    [–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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