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What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

My first OS was DOS 5.0, I switched to linux with Fedora core 6

[–] TheLastOfHisName@piefed.social 1 points 5 months ago

My first OS was Windows 98.

Linux distro was Ubuntu 6.0.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Atari 800 basic.

Gentoo was the first distro I used for any significant amount of time (college).

[–] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I had a Debian PC for a while, it was more of a project. IT work still revolved around Windows back then. Later I discovered Puppy Linux and ran that on a live USB. I encrypted the hard drive in my work laptop and never had to worry about anything making from the USB to my work data. Not a bad way to live, only had to carry around one laptop when I traveled for work.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

First OS - DOS 5.0 First Linux - Knoppix

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

For Linux I started with Wubi to install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. It installed Linux as a program in Windows and added some kind of hacky boot entry to boot into Ubuntu from your windows partition. Pretty cool, and I'm still pretty nostalgic for the GNOME 2 aesthetic with compiz effects from that time.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

First OS: MS-DOS 5

First Linux (many years later): Yellow Dog on one of those dome-shaped iMacs with the PPC chips

[–] Avenging5@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Red Hat 7

[–] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago

mint->chromeOs->kali->windows->arch->openbsd->arch->nix

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