Redhat lol back in the 90’s
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Ubuntu back in 2005.
Ubuntu sometime in the late 2000's. I remember a friend showing me virtual desktops that rotated between each other.
I dual booted my machine and it was amazing... For 10 seconds until I realized thats all it did. When right back to windows.
Raw linux: Android
Raw desktop OS : ChromeOS
GNU/Linux : Ubuntu 18.09
Current : Debian 12
My first distro was SlackWare 7.
I'm not anywhere near my desktop(s) but it has largely been an Ubuntu box of differing flavors.
Though I experimented with Yoper, Knollix, SuSe, Mint, and a few other distros.
I played with SuSE 6.2 for a while in 1999 but only really turned to Linux in 2001 with Mandrake Linux 8.0.
Had to use red hat for a cyber security class in college, but I tinkered with Ubuntu back in highschool. I had no idea what I was doing lmao
Ubuntu, when I started studying IT after high school, my tutor was very insistent that we know about different weird things, and how tech in general worked, and because Ubuntu was so simple, that's where he started.
It was SuSE 5.3, in 1998. That's about the time I went to Linux workshops with a HAM club, getting into packet radio, AX25 and stuff. Good times
Fedora. Core 3 or Core 4 according to Wikipedia and the fact that I recognize the names. An acquaintance suggested I try Linux, so I found info on it, didn't really understand what a distro was and settled on Fedora because I had bought O'Reilly Linux Pocket Guide that used that distro.
I switched pretty quickly after that, and used Ubuntu, Debian, then Mepis for awhile. I've run Arch, dual-booted with Windows for several years on the desktop and Debian testing on my remote server
Manjaro for a while. It broke a few times and then I started using Nix os, until I started using Endeavour.
Iirc it was actually Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu, since I liked the idea of Ubuntu but found it's UI atrocious
Manjaro, that is the distro in my families computer
Ubuntu!
I downloaded the installer in 2017 after MS forced an update to Windows 10 from 7. My laptop, from 2010, couldn't handle W10 and I heard Linux was good for old laptops. Not long after that I hopped around to other distros but Ubuntu was first.
OpenSUSE 10.2 I think. Then Ubuntu 7.04. Stuck with it until they moved to the Unity DE.
Then Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu...
Recently moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon as I got fed up of more of the base system being Snaps.
I did try Mint MATE but the need for more modern built in features won over the nostalgia 🤣
In highschool my tech teacher was handing out official Ubuntu discs . That's when I first heard of Linux . Was probably about 15 of
Redhat. I can't remember the version, but I found it at Fry's electronics in early 2000. Using Fedora now.
Debian. Can't remember the version. I copied the images on a handful of floppy disks and ran a graphical desktop OS off 32MB of RAM and 200MB of storage.
Never really moved away from that since then, except when using a piece of hardware that came with something specific.
Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu, I kept distro hopping but I still kept on coming back to it until I switched to Arch Linux.
I still use Ubuntu for my servers though.
Kubuntu 14.04 burned on a CD my brother gave me when I started studying programming. Switched a lot along the way and ironically ended up on Kubuntu 23.04. I love KDE.
Ubuntu 18.04
Mandrake ~7. Back them I had dial-up internet, but got the install CD from a magazine.
Ubuntu. I think it was around when Unity was starting off.
Red Hat
Ubuntu 5.04 for a day because the name sounded funny and had one of the free CDs at home.
Ubuntu 10.04 in an airport because someone told me it was the free version of macOS and I was really into Macs.
Ubuntu 16.04 properly later because coding is easy with Linux
Some version of Ubuntu around the time they were doing the Ubuntu phone
I distrohopped at the start, no idea what I started with but the first one I settled on was Solus. Still a big fan of Budgie, and the OS felt easy to use, yet had the possibility to download stuff like Spotify as well.
Slackware. And it was a bitch to get everything working is all I remember.
I couldn't run Linux on my PC due too lack of hardware support at the time, but FreeBSD had support, so I ran that for a couple of years until Linux caught up.
At that time, there wasn't much choice when it came to distros. These days, it's a little bit of everything. Arch on my daily driver, RHEL on my ERP and DB servers, Ubuntu server on my Dev server, and I'm planning on deploying NixOS across the 700 PCs at our different locations.
Ubuntu, which I pretty much only installed so I could also install compiz fusion because it looked badass. Nothing like a 3D cube for my multiple desktops, and windows that jiggle when I move them and burn up when I close them.
I started on Arch and it's the only distro I've ever really loved.
I think it was mint or elementry
Ubuntu -> Manjaro -> Pop! OS
attempted Debian and Suse, but first one I got installed and actually used for awhile was a Stage 1 Gentoo build
My first contact with linux was with Ubuntu Server 14.04 when I started my first minecraft project with a friend. We decided to try setting up the server on a VPS instead of using a hosting provider that takes care of all the setup and stuff automatically. That was one heck of a journey, but gave me a good quickstart into linux. Nowadays I use linux as a daily driver at home and for the entirety of my server infrastructure.
Slackware. Don't remember the version.
The first I had for work was Ubuntu.
Slackware to start with, then redhat which seemed very slick and convenient in comparison. Had to drive all the way across the city to buy it on several CDs from some bloke cos my dial up internet was not up to the task. Then I found Debian and stuck with it for about 20yrs, but I think I had some kind of broadband by that point.
Some really old ubuntu version running in a folder in my windows partition. It kept crashing and uninstall was just removing the folder. Another os was beos which ran from a folder too.
Ubuntu > OpenSuse > Mint
Tried some others along the way but didn't liked them.