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?

  • cr78bw@anonsys.net
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    4 days ago

    Slackware in 1996(?), then SuSE when they came up.
    I then tried a bit every once in a while, but really never got fully comfortable with it on a desktop.
    A few weeks ago I bought a new Desktop PC, which is now running with the Arch-fork #endeavouros and I really love it.

    @midtsveen

  • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Red Hat, back when that was a distro. It was a long time ago now and my toying with it didn’t last long; and began an obsession with hardware RAID…

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Mandrake! It was a fucking disaster! Fortunately, I came back later using Kubuntu and had a much better experience.

  • dj346@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I tried to set up arch, realized I didn’t want that kind of work for a gaming setup and swapped to debian, and i’ve used that since lol

  • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    If just using the Live CD counts, Lubuntu 12.04, to copy files off a broken Windows machine

    Then Ubuntu, followed by Deepin (looked cool), UbuntuDDE, Arch, Xubuntu, and finally settled on Debian in 2022.

  • seestheday@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Slackware in 1998 I think, from a cd that came in a book I bought while in university.

    It didn’t stick, but it demystified it and I’ve used a lot of flavours of *nix since then.

    I remember not being able to get sound to work at all on my pentium computer.

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    9 days ago

    Red Hat, way back in the 90s - must have been 5.0 IIRC.

    Since then I went through Ubuntu and now landed on Fedora.

  • 474D@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Started with Mint and stuck with that for a year. No issues, just felt comfortable enough to try something “fancier”, I guess Mint was a little too reliable lol. Went with PopOS a while for the native dock and tiling manager, loved it. Now I’m on a brand new PC build and enjoying gaming with Bazzite. No tinkering involved, it setup my 5070 Ti automatically.

  • chrand@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Slackware, in the 90s, installed from floppy disks. I also used SuSE, Debian and now stick with Fedora.