(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)

Voyajer,
Voyajer avatar

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Nilz,

Same! I spent days trying to get Beryl with wobbly windows and cube workspaces to work and tinkering with Wine to try and run Windows games.

I think back then the 64 bit version couldn’t even run any 32 bit applications and you had to carefully choose, but I’m not entirely sure.

Yearly1845,

Lindows lmao

beregoth,

Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.

stroep,

Oh, and writing the XConfig file with all your monitor timings. Sweet memories…

jafo,

This is the weirdest attempt to get my website security question answers… But… Slackware on floppies.

Nyanix,
@Nyanix@lemmy.ca avatar

I started back on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It was so much prettier than Windows, it got 11 yr. old me into hosting web servers

W1Z_4RD,

Centos in like 2008… idk the version, i had to learn how to set up a basic internal http server with a sql database or something from zero. It was fun.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S,

My first was Ubuntu about a decade ago. Didn’t stick with it at the time. I wouldn’t choose Ubuntu for almost any purpose today, but I think at the time it was fine. (By “almost” I mean that there possibly exists a good use case, but I cannot currently think of one.)

PixelOfLife,

It’s all a blur because I was maybe like 6 or 7 at the time, but I’m fairly certain it was Red Hat. The original, not RHEL.

I have vivid memories of playing a game that involved collecting gems and avoiding falling rocks in a maze, similar to Boulder Dash or Emerald Mine. I have no idea what it was, but I know it wasn’t Rocks’n’Diamonds because I played that a lot and the graphics were different.

jarrn,

Back in 2004, I had a SuSE Linux professional 9.2 on 5 CDs and 2 DVDs. I repeat: SEVEN DISKS!! Even without internet access - which I did not have at that time - it felt like all apps accessible through packet manager. You just had to swap discs when prompted. I just took it out in fond memory… SuSE Linux 9.2

arensb,

Minix.

But then I wised up and switched to FreeBSD.

MrFagtron9000,

Mandrake like in 2003.

ratson,

Same for me

reosluxe,

Knoppix Live CD back in 2004!

Chifilly,

The first time I used Linux was at an old job, and we used Xubuntu for desktop, Debian for servers, and Raspbian on the Raspberry Pis, but technically Xubuntu would have been the first. I currently use KDE neon as my daily driver

iluminae,

I spent weeks installing Linux in 2002, finally got it up and running and was like wow this is barely usable.

Turns out I had a fundamental misunderstanding, and there were pre-made distributions of it for you to use! Took me two years to realize that. Picked up Ubuntu and it just worked (other than wifi)

dannyboy5498,

I first tried Ubuntu because it was the only one I knew of besides arch and I heard that arch was hard. I hated Ubuntu immediately and started distro hopping. I’m on Debian 12 now and it’s the longest I’ve been on a single distro.

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