Redhat 2.1, a cd stuck to a huge book
Wow, nice! I started on 6.1.
Ubuntu, before Unity came along
to be fair gnome3 was a hot steaming pile of shit when it released, and was still bad for literal years. i say that as a gnome user, but i’m sorry, it was unusable for a big stretch of time there.
as much as i dislike canonical for pushing snaps, Unity makes sense to me under that light.
Knoppix STD
Klaus would be proud
Slackware 3.0 in 1996
Then this new promising distro called Debian
Got my own PC, went with Slackware again for some God-forsaken reason
Debian again and that’s where I’ve stayed for most part - I tried using Ubuntu as a desktop laptop distro for a while but at some point I realised I should have installed Debian to begin with so I went with that there too
Slackware on 3.5" floppy’s FTW!
Slackware for me at about the same time. Installed from 3.5" floppys.
Slackware.
Same. The year was 1997…
The first I tried was Ubuntu 7.04 but I didn’t stick with it and went back to XP. Until I ended up with a hardware setup that wouldn’t work on Windows XP (widescreen monitor + Intel graphics driver with no widescreen mode options) but worked perfectly on Ubuntu 9.10. I never truly went back to Windows since.
Tried a few other distros in 2011 then switched to Arch for a couple years, Xubuntu for a couple years, Ubuntu GNOME for 7-8 years, and finally switched to Fedora last year.
When I saw the numbers “7.04” I immediately heard the login drum-like sound “bu-du-bup” and remembered Feisty Fawn. It’s one of my fondest computer memories. It felt like a friend.
Red hat on a disc from a for dummies book at the library.
Same here. Red Hat 5 from the Linux for Dummies book.
Ubuntu
Mandrake Linux. I’m old, I know 😊
There is another :D
Yggdrasil LGX, back in ‘93.
Damn, you got in on like the ground floor haha
It was quite the interesting thing to run back then — it was all very “Wild West” of software, and a LOT of stuff didn’t work well.
It wasn’t my daily driver; it really wasn’t ready for most workloads back then. But it was nearly free, and we shared around the CD-ROM amongst hacker friends interested in giving it a try.
I attempted to install RedHat 5 in the late 90s, but I had no idea what I was doing since I was like 12 or 13 and we had just gotten our first computer. I never got around to actually using Linux until a few years later with Ubuntu 5.04
You can learn a ton installing your own OS, even if you don’t get things working in the end. Especially back in the 90’s when things weren’t quite as plug-and-play and hardware auto-detection was immature. So even if your RedHat experiment failed, good on you for attempting it anyway!
Ubuntu Server 14.04. Years later I tried Arch+Win10 dual boot, but during a forced update, Windows ate the boot partition and then unalived itself. That’s when I nuked the SSD and hard-switched to Manjaro (first daily driver, never had Windows since), later Endeavour, and most recently, Arch. If/when Arch breaks, I’ll most likely hop to Nix.
Ubuntu 8.10
I don’t like Ubuntu anymore but I loved it then
AT&T SVR4
Oh, Linux. Slackware 1.2, but I had already used SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, BSD, A/UX, and Unixware
Damn, you old 😂
Get of my lawn!
What is the difference between SunOS and Solaris?
Solaris uname identifies as SunOS. iirc
In vague, hand waving terms, SunOS was based on BSD, while Solaris was a shift to more of a System V flavor of Unix. And they changed the version numbering. Lots more details, but that’s the gist.
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SteamOS, just seeing how friendly and similar-to-windows KDE looked (and proton running all the games I cared about) gave me all the confidence I needed to install fedora and later nobara on my desktop
