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    [–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
    [–] ebuttonsdude@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago
    [–] Turious@leaf.dance 1 points 1 year ago

    Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.

    [–] rurudotorg@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

    Debian Lenny in 1999.

    [–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

    I used Ubuntu, during the GNOME 2 + Compiz days. God I wish for those days to have a comeback. I've kept a bit of an eye on Wayfire for that reason.

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The first computer I had personally ran ubuntu, but counting other computers before that it could have been either ubuntu or centos that was first, I don't remember which

    Ubuntu back in 09 or so.

    [–] FabianRY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Technically the first distro i used was Lubuntu 10.04, but it was only a live cd because i was 13 by then and i was terrified that i installed linux and my father got angry at me if i left any evidence. The first one i used as a full SO to use as i like, Raspbian, so debian (wheezy, i believe).

    [–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

    My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.

    [–] menzel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

    ChromeOS (more it's Debian Container)

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

    Distrohopping every view Weeks

    KDE Neon

    NixOS

    [–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara

    Kind of just been going down the convenience route.

    [–] Fint0034@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    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

    [–] Enkrod@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    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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    [–] Elliot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)

    rocky linux 8 on a vm (rocky is a tablet os to me)

    [–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

    Edubuntu, IT@School

    [–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

    tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.

    [–] epyon22@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

    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.

    Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago

    [–] schmalls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.

    [–] multicolorKnight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.

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    [–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

    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

    [–] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 1 points 1 year ago

    Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers

    [–] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Debian 4 lyf

    [–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

    Something that ran from loadlin, I can't remember. Slackware, probably.

    [–] AppleMango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os

    [–] 0x30507DE@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

    Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.

    [–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

    KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good

    [–] Emi@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Think it was pop OS because "gaming" but never really had Linux as main os on my pc because gaming and modding and few other things that are just more complicated compared to what I'm used to. Being told to just use arch also does not help when I don't want to use terminal. And also don't know if you can run vr on Linux without problems. Current have installed mint on second drive(HDD) will start looking more into Linux when windows 10 stops getting support. But I'm a noob so what do I know.

    [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

    open suse (or was it mandrake? idk) around 2006. I remember trying it, and thinking "wow. This is trash" and then sticking with windows for 10 more years until giving ubuntu a try (and sticking to it). I tried other non-debian linuxes since then, but they all gave me that "wow, trash"-kind of feeling

    [–] Tai6VohT@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

    slackware around 1996. the install was about thirteen floppies.

    [–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    RedHat 5.2 in 1998. The manual that came with the box set was amazing.

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    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

    Ubuntu because I didn't know anything about it and wanted to see if I could use it to fix my win10 account on my old laptop.

    [–] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

    Xandros on an eeePC 901

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