I’m new to #Lemmy and making myself feel at home by posting a bit!

My first Linux distribution was elementary OS in early March 2020. Since then, I’ve tried Manjaro, Arch Linux, Fedora, went back to Manjaro, and since early January 2023, I’ve landed on Debian as my home in the #Linux world.

What was your first Linux distro?

  • pyu@lemm.eeEnglish
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    21 minutes ago

    My first distro was the Asahi Linux Beta which was using Arch Linux ARM. EDIT: Now I use Void Linux

  • Zahtu@feddit.org
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    11 minutes ago

    Ubuntu. For Work purpose in 2020 as a development VM.

    Since then i moved privately to Zorin and now to Nobara. At Work it still is Ubuntu for me, but hopefully i will soon change positions and can shelve that stuff.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    32 minutes ago

    scientific linux. I failed to get most things running and switched to ubuntu. this was about 10 years ago

  • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    When I took my Linux class in 2007, he gave us a mountain of distros we could choose from. Ubuntu got picked first and Fedora second. This was mostly due to already having easy installs and a gui to boot with. It was also due to him having shown us these distros beforehand.

    I was third pick. I knew what I wanted right away. My teacher, an extremely smart man with photographic memory, seemed fairly bored with the proceedings. That was until I chose Damn Small Linux as the third overall choice. The grin on his face as he knew he found a student that would be fun to teach and wanted to learn.

    I was fairly sure he expected me to pick openSUSE. It was the third distro he’d shown us installations for and had us play around with. And boy, am I glad I chose Damn Small. I learned so much more than the other teens that were in there just to get an easy credit. He was an easygoing teacher. He didn’t fail people really, he let them hang around and play WC3: FT DOTA on LAN if they wanted and still passed them. But boy would he teach you if he knew you really wanted to learn it.

    After that, we had to group in pairs in PC Repair class (same teacher) to take old student’s orders to help fix their computers. I was allowed to work alone and he just let me do what I wanted. I stuck to the code, repaired computers, and never snooped through anyone’s files. He knew I already could find my way around the Windows Registry (something Microsoft is thinking hard on how to stop you from doing now). He’d also do IT for the school during classes. Whenever he was away, I was allowed to be secondary IT if he was busy. It was easy stuff, mostly printer drivers and wifi troubleshooting.

    It was really thanks to Damn Small Linux. My first project was to get Windows Solitaire running on it. He set it for us to research as homework. When he came over to me that same day, I had already looked up the info and was playing it on the GNOME 2 DE (MATE is still one of my favorite desktops). I just said, “WINE?” and he put a finger to his lips and grinned.

    Thank you for letting an old man waffle on. Those were good times.

    • crimsonpoodle@pawb.social
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      16 minutes ago

      Nice I wasn’t old enough (at least my parents thought so) to have my own computer at the time but I remember my dad showing me a long index of distros around then and thinking it was cool that there was puppy Linux and with “damn small Linux” that you could curse in the distro name