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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Edubuntu, IT@School

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 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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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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, GNOME’s UX regressed so terribly with its 3.0 release, that Canonical’s Unity and Mint’s Cinnamon & MATE popped up as a response. One of those didn’t 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 Apple’s 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. :-)

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Ubuntu studio 🤣🤣🤣

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    First must've been Caldera Linux in 1996 or 1997. Absolutely wild to compare with contemporaries at the time.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara

    Kind of just been going down the convenience route.

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    slackware around 1996. the install was about thirteen floppies.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    *ubuntu (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu 10.04 -> Kubuntu 12.04) -> Debian 8 (KDE). Debian since then.

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    [–] [email protected] 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).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Ubuntu, opensuse, or freebsd. I can't remember what I installed first, since it was around 2006-2007. There was a piece about Linux in some PC magazine and I had to check it out.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 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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