bluegandalf,

Pop!_OS in mid 2021. Switched to Fedora GNOME in mid 2022, haven’t looked back, but am looking forward to Fedora COSMIC.

Quazatron,
@Quazatron@lemmy.world avatar

Slackware.

youngGoku,

Ubuntu, and I’ve been using it for 10 years without trying anything else until this week, I use arch now.

Cyber,

(BTW)

geoma,

Mandrake linux on 2001

jfx,

I had the Mandrake Powerpack that came with two books. I basically memorized the entire console handbook while on the loo…

Codandchips,
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Relatively new full-time Linux user here. My first experience of using Linux was Knoppix. I had it on cd-rom to troubleshoot Windows, got into media servers and xbmc, so had a few OpenElec machines. Now have Mint as a daily driver.

OldFartPhil,

Ubuntu 9.04, because of WUBI (anyone remember that?). Unstable as hell, but allowed you to run a near bare metal Linux install without the hassle of setting up dual-booting and a separate partition. Liked Ubuntu it so much that I soon replaced Windows completely. Currently running Debian, so I haven’t strayed far from the family.

Cyber,

Yeah, Ubuntu 9.x here too… becuase I could use it to install MythTV

absGeekNZ,
@absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz avatar

I ran Ubuntu 8.04 for a while, it was the unstable. I gave it another crack when 10.04 came out. I haven’t looked back.

Currently running Mint, cinnamon is a great desktop

Ludrol,
@Ludrol@szmer.info avatar

There are no edgy teenagers here?

Kali Linux to be an elite hax00r

Then Linux mint and now Ubuntu.

guywithoutaname,

First full time distro was Manjaro. First exposure to desktop Linux was Ubuntu on a crappy school netbook. Now I use Arch (btw)

MetricIsRight,

I had messed around with various distros in the mid 2000’s but never more than a day. Just as a “this seems neat” kinda thing. Recently I wised up, tried Zorin OS was on that for a year, then went back to windows for a while. now I’m running EndeavorOS and there isn’t even a windows partition on this machine, I will not be going back. Still debating setting up QEMU for the only windows only program I miss though.

Kristof12,
@Kristof12@lemmy.ml avatar

My first was Linux Mint as well because it was more simplistic and cinnamon is really simple to use, good extensions available and stable for the most part, sometimes happened memory leaks but fixed on version 5.8; currently using Debian RC

rotopenguin,
@rotopenguin@infosec.pub avatar

DiLinux. You drop a bunch of files in a fat16 folder, and run a chainloader that chestbursts out of DOS. It used the umsdos filesystem, which was a short-lived thing that lived on FAT and scribed all of the other needed fs features into bonus hidden files.

BigBigChugnus,
@BigBigChugnus@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I installed Ubuntu 20.10 because I got tired of Windows and liked the monkey wallpaper.

HouseWolf,

I chose Pop!_OS as my first because I was worried about Nvidia drivers and everyone told me Pop was a safe bet. Stayed with it for about 3 weeks despite a lot of weird issues with audio drivers and just not liking a lot of the Ui even after customizing it heavily, before it completely shit itself one day and I couldn’t even load a backup.

Went back to Windows for 2 months before trying EndeavourOS w/KDE and it’s been my main for almost a year now.

delirious_owl,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Slackware

DigitalDruid,

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  • ProtonBadger,

    I remember those days. On disk 22: Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz CRC-ERROR

    I can still hear it.

    kib48,

    My first was Ubuntu 14.04 on some old HP laptop my dad had lying around. I still miss Unity sometimes

    I’m all in on Fedora nowadays though, unless you count SteamOS lol

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