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)
Mandrake. Emailed to me on a CD. I feel old.
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.
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…
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
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.
Knoppix Live CD back in 2004!
Ubuntu… before Canonical nuked it.
Mandrake 9.1.
Ubuntu (can’t remember if it was 6 or 8) was the first distro that I used, my cousin and another family friend used it and I got interested and asked to have it installed on my home desktop.
For years, every LTS release of Ubuntu I installed as dual boot to try and experiment for a few weeks and then uninstalled it, using Windows for everything.
2 years ago, I decided that I wanted to try other distributions and to switch and use Linux as my daily driver, so I installed Manjaro on my laptop and I have been using it daily since.
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Same! I spent days trying to get Beryl with wobbly windows and cube workspaces to work and tinkering with Wine to try and run Windows games.
I think back then the 64 bit version couldn’t even run any 32 bit applications and you had to carefully choose, but I’m not entirely sure.
Mint, because it’s what my dad put on my first laptop when I was like 10 or something. I remember playing minetest and FTL on it.
Knoppix :) I was just a wee boy using it to analyze malware safely on a Windows machine. The idea we were booting an OS and running it live off a 1GB USB stick blew my bosses mind. Didn’t use Linux seriously at all for another 5 years, now with the rise of Proton I’m all in on PopOS 😎
Slackware 0.97 (if I recall correctly) it must’ve been in 1993 I think
Which Kernel was that? I used Slackware with the 1.0.20 kernel.
Phew… digging deep in my memories. I am almost certain it was pre-1.0.
We got it from our Prolog teacher at school. It was a huge stack of disks. I think we compiled the kernel on a daily basis to tweak things, or get hardware working. Fun times!
I think it was probably Ubuntu 6.10. a friend from high school have me a CD to install it.
Ubuntu 16.04
