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)

    • desconectado@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • fouc@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • astroturds@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Mandrake 7 was the first one I installed on my pc. In those days you could buy a boxed version with about 10 cds to install from.

    • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.end files.

  • stroep@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Slackware 0.97 (if I recall correctly) it must’ve been in 1993 I think

  • blankmind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.

    • stroep@feddit.nlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh, and writing the XConfig file with all your monitor timings. Sweet memories…

  • losttourist@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Slackware. Version 3.1 if I remember rightly, with Linux kernel 2.19.x.

    It was installed from floppy disks, you needed about 10 of them to do a full install including X Windows.

    At the time (1997 or 1998) I only had dial up internet at home, so over the period of several days I brought blank floppies in to work, downloaded the relevant images and copied them on to the disks.

    I then spent most of a weekend trying to persuade an (even then elderly) PS/2 with 4 MB of RAM to become a Linux box. Got there in the end, though!