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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?

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[–] mastod0n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

SuSe Linux, I got a CD in the (late?) 2000s and installed it on my old PC. But reality got me pretty fast, I iust wasn't invested yet. Years later I started from scratch on Debian.

[–] Zahtu@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Ubuntu. For Work purpose in 2020 as a development VM.

Since then i moved privately to Zorin and now to Nobara. At Work it still is Ubuntu for me, but hopefully i will soon change positions and can shelve that stuff.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Started in 2022 on Kubuntu, moved to Fedora in October 2022, switched back to the Fedora KDE Spin in 2023, and been there since.

[–] nfms@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

My first was Ubuntu in the early 2000s, I think CDs were being distributed by the IT department in one of the faculties, then SUSE but Linux didn't stick with me at the time. In 2018 I installed Manjaro which helped me make the switch to arch. I've also got Debian on a server and fedora on a laptop

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Debian 1.3, Bo - 1997

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Mklinux. It was the only thing you could run on one of those jank-ass PowerPC/nubus Macs.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

XanderOS way tf back in 2005 or 2006, but mostly just messed around and had no clue what I was doing with it... After that I did a Gentoo install. Been kinda off and on with Linux since, flirting with the possibility of switching to it fully but never actually making the jump until last year when I built a new machine and put Mint on it.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

arch linux since december

I use arch btw

and I use hyprland btw

[–] procapra@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

The first I used for any extended period of time was fedora.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

It depends how you define it. I first installed Slackware at work on a retired IBM PS/2 in '94 or '95, because somebody was working on MicroChannel bus support. (That never materialized.) Later, we checked out Novell Linux Desktop, maybe Debian, too. At a later job, we had some Red Hat workstations, version 5 or 6, and I had Yellow Dog Linux on an old Power Mac.

At home, I didn't switch to Linux until Ubuntu Breezy Badger. It was glorious to install it on a laptop, and have all of the ACPI features just work. I had been running FreeBSD for several years, NetBSD on an old workstation before that, and Geek Gadgets (a library for compiling Unix programs on Amiga OS) before that.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Ubuntu Karmic Koala. To be fair, I was a kid and that was, according to people on the Internet, the most likely to work. And so it did - it had out of the box support for my wifi adapter, which some other distros I tried later did not, I had to use something called ndiswrapper. Of course I did not yet know about compiling my own configured kernel, that came a month or 2 later.

I only stayed on Ubuntu for a while, then tried Mint, used that on and off for years, dabbled with Arch at some point, too. In the last 5 years I've used PopOs, Gentoo, OpenSuse, NixOS. I'm not gonna bother with capitalization and punctuation on some of these.

[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Elementary OS

[–] gitamar@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

OpenSuse 5, I think it was called suse Linux back then.

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