Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry
Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)
I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)
Tails. I wasnt allowed unsupervised computer time outside of school until I was in junior year of high school (and by unsupervised I mean that when the computer was on, mom or dad had to be physically looking at the screen)
I used it to get around how well my mom and dad had locked down their laptops, which allowed me to use their hardware to watch Battlestar Galactica until 3 am. I was such a rebellious child.
Mandrake. Emailed to me on a CD. I feel old.
Mandrake in 2003, I was young and didn’t know what I was doing…
Mine was also mandrake in the early 2000’s. There was no Ubuntu back then, and Mandrake was the “home desktop” for Linux, specially if you didn’t need servers running. I think it worked fine, not sure why it got so much hate.
Yay another Mandrake user! I actually bought the box from a computer store back in 2003. Mandrake was actually a decent effort for a user friendly distribution and the standard installation included tons of software. Getting pppd to connect that serial ISDN modem to the internet for the first time was magical. I’ve been a Linux user ever since. The other main alternatives at the time were Debian, Slackware both too complicated for a newbie.
Red Hat Linux back in 1999.
Knoppix Live CD back in 2004!
It was no distro, it was kernel 0.99 and bunch of gnu utils on like 8 floppy disks, and 10 more floppies or so for X11. I was running it on a 486DX50 iirc.
Linux 0.2, not.joking. a friend came with it to me, just downloaded from a newsgroup (I think) around 1992, on a floppy! We tested it on my PC, didn’t know what to do with it, and promptly removed it. A few years later we gave it another try, and the rest is history
Ubuntu… before Canonical nuked it.
Slackware, dont remember the version but it was 1996.
Same here, but 1998. Red Hate soon after.
Slackware was my second, version 3 or 4 was the first I used, I don’t remember what year it was, but I’ve learned so much from it.
Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.
Oh, and writing the XConfig file with all your monitor timings. Sweet memories…
A friend of mine gave me an official Ubuntu 4.10 CD and that was my first Linux distro that I have tried.
I still have that CD.
Mandrake 9.1.
Slackware, installed from a big stack of 3.5" disks
Same. I pulled a copy originally from CLEVNET that had a local mirror of CWRU ftp at the Cleveland Public Library. I believe it was 2.3, I know it was while they were still on a.out before the swap to ELF.
Don’t forget to read your
install.endfiles.Same. What a task…
Slackware, and it took years before I tried again.
Ubuntu. I couldn’t afford a new laptop for college so I desperately googled for some way to make my old machine last.
