What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes.
Currently on Fedora GNOME now but what about you? What made you choose your first distro diving into the world of Linux?
My first, I’m pretty sure, was Ubuntu but for playing around with.
My first one that I stayed with and kept as an actually OS was PopOS. Haven’t changed since. Works well and does what I need. Can’t wait to see what Cosmic has in store.
As for what made me go to Linux. Windows was cumbersome to program in. Had to use another app to run command lines, putty. Used Linux terminals before and knew that it was easier to run programs from command line so I decided to give the desktop a try. So much better! Ended up keeping Linux because it was faster, more clean, and I was able to accomplish majority of the tasks I used windows for. For the things that don’t work on Linux, I have other devices for.
I ordered a laptop (five years ago) that had Ubuntu/Gnome preinstalled, but soon replaced it with Debian/Mate, mainly because of what I read about it on Distrowatch. My new laptop (one year old) shipped bare metal and runs Fedora/Cinnamon.
Fedora 6 back in 2007-8 as a part of my CompTIA A+ training. It wasn’t required but my instructor wanted some of us more advanced students to experience a life outside of Windows.
I first installed mint on a pc, but only for homebridge. First distro I really used was openSuse tumbleweed and after that I shortly switched to Arch because I liked the way the AUR work (using yay) better, than the community repos of openSuse.
I still recommend openSuse TW to anyone that wants to try a rolling release distro. You don’t even need the Terminal in that distro.
I started with trying distros in live mode out of general curiosity. My machine had a ton of data and didn’t support dualbooting so I didn’t want to install something. Then my Windows license broke and I decided that pirating is not great so I wanted to install a distro. I liked Manjaro the most(I know I know but hey back then I didn’t know about its issues) but couldn’t install it because of a wrong boot device mode (lol I was an absolute noob then). So I flashed KDE Neon and installed it after finally figuring out the BIOS/UEFI stuff (was too lazy to reflash Manjaro lol). It wasn’t much of a conscious choice. I just installed one of the KDE distros I liked pretty much the same after I couldn’t install Manjaro but that probably saved me a few hours of troubleshooting so that’s good. KDE was a requirement though. I did want a Windows-looking distro so my older family members could use it. After that I tried many distros. Now I’m on Cachy just because of the significantly smoother experience (optimization rules!). It’s unstable though so I don’t recommend it
Ubuntu, I think. This was around 2010, when I was just ten years old. Back then, we had Unity as the main desktop. Left Linux and settled with Windows for some time. Tried to move back to Linux in 2020, starting with Fedora 30. Then I tried around other distros, but still stuck around with Fedora. Moved to NixOS after the RedHat fiasco. My main laptop died, so I’m using my dad’s crappy outdated laptop with Guix + Nix.
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