(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)

repeat3times,

VoyagerOS - no idea about anything other than Windows being a thing, less of a clue about what I was doing, think I read something about it being lightweight and guessed it fit my needs.

Pietrasagh,

Slackware 7, year 2000. Never seen linux before. Thanks to help from IT geek next door managed to boot net-installer it from single 3.5". After many hours managed do finally get xfree86 working. As far as I remember it was running with KDE.

onizuka89,

Knoppix. Was recommended it by someone I chatted with at the time and that did not go well. This was not Knoppix’s fault though, but rather me not knowing what I got into. Things worked as one would expect, the applications that were included ran without issues, but the issue came when wanted to install software. At the time didn’t know anything about linux, so didn’t know how to use the terminal to install software, and when trying to install new ones using exe files that didn’t work for now obvious reasons. So threw that stuff out and went back to windows, and didn’t touch Linux again until Ubuntu Hardy Heron which went a lot better.

Dick_Justice,
@Dick_Justice@lemmy.world avatar

DSL (Damn Small Linux) was what I started plying with, but my first daily driver was PCLOS.

SevereLow,

Ubuntu… before Canonical nuked it.

adamantris,

Iirc it was actually Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu, since I liked the idea of Ubuntu but found it’s UI atrocious

JossyBop,

Ubuntu, when I started studying IT after high school, my tutor was very insistent that we know about different weird things, and how tech in general worked, and because Ubuntu was so simple, that’s where he started.

sep,

Redhat. When it came time to upgrade i dug myself into rpm hell so many times. I struggled, had to reinstall. Next redhat upgrade, same experience.
I tried debian potato, and dist-upgraded to next stable with no issues. I was floored. Have been dist-upgrading ever since. And run a few hundreds of debian servers.

ohlaph,

Redhat. I can’t remember the version, but I found it at Fry’s electronics in early 2000. Using Fedora now.

irkli,

386BSD, on a 386dx processor with 4mb ram. Compiled from 24 3.5" floppies that took 24 hours to compile. Before Linux existed.

mea_rah,

Technically this does not answer OP’s question, but thank you anyways. Now I don’t feel that old.

irkli,

Lol, yeah after I posted that I realized that …

Olds not so bad. The alternative is worse.

jaanus20,

Manjaro, that is the distro in my families computer

lntl,
@lntl@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Ubuntu!

I downloaded the installer in 2017 after MS forced an update to Windows 10 from 7. My laptop, from 2010, couldn’t handle W10 and I heard Linux was good for old laptops. Not long after that I hopped around to other distros but Ubuntu was first.

1024_Kibibytes,

Fedora. Core 3 or Core 4 according to Wikipedia and the fact that I recognize the names. An acquaintance suggested I try Linux, so I found info on it, didn’t really understand what a distro was and settled on Fedora because I had bought O’Reilly Linux Pocket Guide that used that distro.

I switched pretty quickly after that, and used Ubuntu, Debian, then Mepis for awhile. I’ve run Arch, dual-booted with Windows for several years on the desktop and Debian testing on my remote server

Bootheal0179,

Deepin

Ticktok,

Hard to remember because it was in 2000 on my gateway PC, but I remember trying to setup Gentoo and redhat and knoppix and failing miserably.

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