I first tried a version of red hat that I got from a CD on the cover of a PC magazine back in 1999. I was barely a teenager, didn’t know what I was doing, ended up hating it.
Then a couple years later I read about Mandrake, again got it from a CD on the front of a magazine. I used it for about a year before hopping to Slackware.
Mandrake was the 2nd distro I tried some 25 years ago.
I first tried a version of red hat that I got from a CD on the cover of a PC magazine back in 1999. I was barely a teenager, didn’t know what I was doing, ended up hating it. Then a couple years later I read about Mandrake, again got it from a CD on the front of a magazine. I used it for about a year before hopping to Slackware.
My first around the same time, I couldn’t believe something like that was free. Now I’m on Bazzite and I still can’t believe it.