(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)

WaxiestSteam69,

Redhat 4.? I’m not really sure of the precise version but it was sometime in the late 99 or early 2000.

MrCrankyBastard,

My first distro was SlackWare 7.

I’m not anywhere near my desktop(s) but it has largely been an Ubuntu box of differing flavors.

Though I experimented with Yoper, Knollix, SuSe, Mint, and a few other distros.

BastingChemina,

I think it was probably Ubuntu 6.10. a friend from high school have me a CD to install it.

Crudman,

I don’t actively use Linux anymore but I think I first used puppy Linux in middle school. I was a strange kid and got a kick out of anything that could run off a flash drive.

Then I’d use like Ubuntu, lubuntu, and mint typically. I’m back to using windows because I only really use my computer for gaming and I honestly had a rare gift for bricking distros by installing something wrong.

rustymitt,

RedHat 5.2, purchased in a plastic-wrapped cardboard box from Best Buy. God I’m old 😭

ohlaph,

Same…

InAmberClad,
@InAmberClad@lemmy.nz avatar

I daily drove Puppy Linux live booted off a USB for a few months probably 15 years a go when my hard drive died and I couldn’t afford a new one.

SOB_Van_Owen,

Also started with Puppy. Then went on to Red Hat and finally settled into Mint.

Spider89,

Raw linux: Android

Raw desktop OS : ChromeOS

GNU/Linux : Ubuntu 18.09

Current : Debian 12

Chocrates,

God I am old, I remember before kali rebranded 😭.

Phlak and Knoppix were mine. Neither lasted long since I couldn’t install it on my home computer. The first one I installed as a dual boot was Ubuntu. While I have strayed from them over the years they have been my daily driver for the better part of 15 years

sim_shady,

I wanted to try out Ubuntu and Linux Mint in a dual boot configuration when I was about 10 years old and accidentally wiped my whole disk clean. I recovered all the data that was saveable, reinstalled Windows and didn’t touch Linux until avout 4 years later, when I setup Arch on my new laptop. Since then, I’ve aquired many new devices and always remained true to Arch.

aqua,

This one!

MorphiusFaydal,

Mandrake 9.1.

CarlCook,

My first one was OpenSUSE in the 00-years. I was hardly able to get it up and running on my worn out, home-build desktop.

Tried again later with ubuntu (Gnome) on an old Thinkpad and was taken aback about how smooth it ran just ootb.

darkan15,

Ubuntu (can’t remember if it was 6 or 8) was the first distro that I used, my cousin and another family friend used it and I got interested and asked to have it installed on my home desktop.

For years, every LTS release of Ubuntu I installed as dual boot to try and experiment for a few weeks and then uninstalled it, using Windows for everything.

2 years ago, I decided that I wanted to try other distributions and to switch and use Linux as my daily driver, so I installed Manjaro on my laptop and I have been using it daily since.

stroep,

Slackware 0.97 (if I recall correctly) it must’ve been in 1993 I think

bremen15,

Which Kernel was that? I used Slackware with the 1.0.20 kernel.

stroep,

Phew… digging deep in my memories. I am almost certain it was pre-1.0.

We got it from our Prolog teacher at school. It was a huge stack of disks. I think we compiled the kernel on a daily basis to tweak things, or get hardware working. Fun times!

theNoob,

OpenSuse with KDE on a Netbook

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