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Ubuntu 10.04.
A walk down memory lane
I received a free CD of 10.04 with a computer magazine that I purchased every time I travelled.
The CD was neglected for the better part of that year, until I tried it out of curiosity. I remember setting up a dual boot configuration around two weeks in. I removed Windows around eve of 2011 and never looked back.
Since then I distro hopped every six months but kept coming back to Linux Mint as it nailed the balance between stability and UX, especially for the home machine that would be used by people from diverse age groups.
In those years, GNOMEβs UX regressed so terribly with its 3.0 release, that Canonicalβs Unity and Mintβs Cinnamon & MATE popped up as a response. One of those didnβt make it by the end of that decade. In those same years, Canonical started alienating its users with questionable decisions. Fedora and Manjaro became stable enough to be recommended for actual daily use. The 2010s was a wild ride.
Though by the start of 2020s, I entered Appleβs walled gardens as I no longer had time to troubleshoot my devices and tools, and expected those to work reliably.
I still use Linux on the home machine as well as the homelab. But I patiently wait for the day Linux is stable for daily use on phones. :-)
Same.
Ubuntu
Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)
fedora π
I'm not sure what the first distro I installed was but I used to have a Linux VM running 24/7 on my Windows machine back in '06. I ran folding@home on my athlon 64 and for some reason the client at the time ran faster in a Linux VM on windows than it did in native windows. Pretty sure I was running Ubuntu but I can't be certain.
Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.
rocky linux 8 on a vm (rocky is a tablet os to me)
Red Hat 5.1 CD from a magazine. Ended up at fedora and couldn't be happier.
I'm not sure if Yggdrasil or Slackware, which we tried out at the old university computers. But quickly Debian became so much more flexible.
Ubuntu in 2010 (with compiz' burning screen of course!). Got a new laptop a the time with decent to good specs and was shocked how bad it performed with the stock Win7 and bloated with bloatware (it was a Sony).
Elementary OS 6 Years ago
Edubuntu, IT@School
Red Hat 6 in college.
Mandrake Linux 7 at home.
In 2000
Zorin :D
tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years laterβ€οΈ.
I found a distro that would install on the windows file system and boot. Apparently it was slackware based didn't have a concept in my head of package managers couldn't figure out how to install gaim (now pidgin) gave up. Didn't go back for another 4 years doing C in college. Didn't look back from there.
RHEL desktop 4 when it was still free and I was in middle school
Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago
I attempted to boot Mandrake/Mandrivia on an old laptop once and failed, then I mucked around in Slackware's live CD for an afternoon. The first thing I actually installed and used daily was Ubuntu 10.04.
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I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.
I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.
@Waffelson First effort was Corel Linux back in 1999. The experience was so bad that I didn't try linux again until 2008, and it finally stuck 6 years ago. Now i'm all in.
Redhat 5.2 on cd. I learned a lot about compiling kernels as it didnβt support scsi emulation which was required for an ide cd burner. I think I ended up on Mandrake for a while before bouncing around including LFS. Then gentoo for many many years. And Iβve come full circle and been back on fedora for about 10 years now.
Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.
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OpenSUSE back in the early 2000s. Since my parents got a new PC and the old one from '99 wasnt able to run Windows XP properly
Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers
Debian 4 lyf
Ubuntu 5.04 back in like 2004-2005. Although I did pick up RedHat 5 back in the late 90s but never managed to get it installed... Because I was like 11 or 12 lol
Something that ran from loadlin, I can't remember. Slackware, probably.
Opensuse without knowing that it was Linux 20 years ago. Knowing was 3 years later with Mandrake.
Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago
Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara
Kind of just been going down the convenience route.
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I tried to have a go at ubuntu but my hardware was pretty crap and it didn't work, I can't remember my first one that worked but it was probably debian or alpine or something
Ubuntu, then Mint, now Arch, but I'm too inexperienced for it and want to try Kubuntu for native KDE with Plasma desktop.
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Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.