(Linux users !) What was the first Linux distro that you used ?

Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry

Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)

I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)

TeacherThomas,

@deepinder_brar Ubuntu 8.10

G0FuckThyself,
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I think it was mint or elementry

remi_pan,
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Mandrake ! Autumn 1999 if I remember well…

tiredofsametab,

I forget whether I did Mandrake or Redhat first. This was on a 3.5" floppy, heh.

Old GenToo, when I finally got off of dial-up, was an interesting experience. Building everything from the ground up definitely taught me a lot.

These days, I mostly use Ubuntu at home (and various at work). I may give mint a shot, however.

ExceptionalCow,

I played with SuSE 6.2 for a while in 1999 but only really turned to Linux in 2001 with Mandrake Linux 8.0.

netbenix,

My first contact with linux was with Ubuntu Server 14.04 when I started my first minecraft project with a friend. We decided to try setting up the server on a VPS instead of using a hosting provider that takes care of all the setup and stuff automatically. That was one heck of a journey, but gave me a good quickstart into linux. Nowadays I use linux as a daily driver at home and for the entirety of my server infrastructure.

candyman337,
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Had to use red hat for a cyber security class in college, but I tinkered with Ubuntu back in highschool. I had no idea what I was doing lmao

zumi,

Slackware. And it was a bitch to get everything working is all I remember.

cerement,
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attempted Debian and Suse, but first one I got installed and actually used for awhile was a Stage 1 Gentoo build

BobThingamy,

Slackware to start with, then redhat which seemed very slick and convenient in comparison. Had to drive all the way across the city to buy it on several CDs from some bloke cos my dial up internet was not up to the task. Then I found Debian and stuck with it for about 20yrs, but I think I had some kind of broadband by that point.

Puffymumpkins,

Tails. I wasnt allowed unsupervised computer time outside of school until I was in junior year of high school (and by unsupervised I mean that when the computer was on, mom or dad had to be physically looking at the screen)

I used it to get around how well my mom and dad had locked down their laptops, which allowed me to use their hardware to watch Battlestar Galactica until 3 am. I was such a rebellious child.

F4stL4ne,
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Mandrake in 2003, I was young and didn’t know what I was doing…

desconectado,

Mine was also mandrake in the early 2000’s. There was no Ubuntu back then, and Mandrake was the “home desktop” for Linux, specially if you didn’t need servers running. I think it worked fine, not sure why it got so much hate.

fouc,
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Yay another Mandrake user! I actually bought the box from a computer store back in 2003. Mandrake was actually a decent effort for a user friendly distribution and the standard installation included tons of software. Getting pppd to connect that serial ISDN modem to the internet for the first time was magical. I’ve been a Linux user ever since. The other main alternatives at the time were Debian, Slackware both too complicated for a newbie.

BaroqueInMind,
BaroqueInMind avatar

Ubuntu back in 2005.

Generic-Disposable,

I am not really sure but I think it was yggdrasil. I remember loading a ton of floppies one after the other. 5 1/4 inch ones too!

pragmakist,
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I never got yggdrasil to work.

Unfortunately that makes me really wonder, what it was that I eventually got to work.

Something on a lot 3½ inch floppies.

pragmakist,
pragmakist avatar

Someone below mentioned mandrake. I think that was it.

In which case it would have been 5 or 6 years (and a couple of computers) after giving up on yggdrasil.

eugenia,
eugenia avatar

Red Hat Linux back in 1999.

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