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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux? (lemmy.cloudaf.site)

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I'll go first, I took my mom's college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to run my games on it, and man wine was not nearly as easy to use (or as good) as it is nowadays. So I switched back to windows until around 2015 or so when I spent the next few years trying to replace windows as much as I could. Once valve released proton, I switched fully and have t looked back, unless my still there windows partition tries to take over my computer when I restart it at least.

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[–] Rayspekt@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beginning of the year when I got my Steam Deck and found it about the desktop mode. Now I have garuda on my living room tv-pc up and running to game and watch stuff. Best decision since a long time, thanks GabeN for giving me the final nudge to go linux.

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[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Slax live CD when I was around 13 in the early 2000s.

Still use it for dev env and servers (Debian) but prefer Win/Mac for a desktop manager

[–] test1@calendario-lunar.com 1 points 2 years ago

Linux SLS distribution, circa 1993.

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