Since my only use for Windows these days is gaming and I’d really like to get away from it, after I found an old #MacBookPro (from 2006!) stuck on Snow Leopard hidden at the back of the cupboard I thought I’d give #linux a go, purely for the hell of it. Since it’s my first go and an old machine I thought #LinuxMint #XFCE made sense. Who says you can’t teach an #olddognewtricks eh? #MyFirstDistro

I'm yast installing the first Linux distro I've ever used; SuSE Linux 6.0. It took me a week to get X running back then on my 14' CRT. Really exited to see how this works out now.. Please make sure that CD number 3 is in your drive! ..and "Have a lot of fun..."

#linux #suse #retrocomputing #screenshot #yast #myfirstdistro

Saw this on my timeline, might as well join in...
My memories of this are kinda hazy, but #myfirstdistro was most likely Fedora Core 6, around 2006, on a Pentium 4 desktop PC, with many many afternoons spent playing SuperTuxKart, Torcs, Racer NL, Rocks n' Diamonds, Pingus, Powermanga, Neverball, etc. Fun times :)

Saw this hashtag and will share, too.
#MyFirstDistro

First distro I used was Slackware circa 2000 on an old 486 computer that served as a router, hosted a phpBB, and a webpage with a hamstercam feed 🐹

All probably horribly configured and insecure :pi_pi_piri_piri_pi:

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- installed on my own PC was an SuSE Linux of 10.x version, somewhen in 2005 or 2006 (that late just because I started to own a PC in 2003), so just shortly after the acquisition by Novel and rebranding to openSUSE. I use openSUSE nowadays too!
- first known to me was a RedHat that an older brother of my friend tried, from whom I borrowed a book about it and read it, since I didn't have any computer then in 2000 or so.

in terms of systems i used, #MyFirstDistro was Solaris 7 (i think) which was installed in a lab at college.

in terms of systems i ran, #MyFirstDistro was an old x86 system that i set up as a server which ran #NetBSD 1.5.2 (and which i colocated at a friend's house for several years)

Just discovered #myfirstdistro and here's mine: #Suse #Linux 6.0 - It happened at a second-hand shop for hard- and software; between Data Becker and MS Frontpage boxes there was a copy of Suse. The back-cover had a screenshot of what looked very similar to Chigago shell, just a little different. It was #KDE 2. That was when I first realised that there are obviously other systems to operate PCs. I bought that box for 5 Deutsche Mark. 🙃 One week later I managed to successfully start #XFree86 😅

I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.

When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.

#MyFirstDistro was some early version of Red Hat in the late 90's. My dad's IT guy from work installed it on a decommissioned box and gave it to me when he found out I was interested in trying Linux.

I couldn't believe how much software you got by default FOR FREE. All the games, the web browser, the word processing!!!

#myfirstdistro was a boxed copy of Red Hat 5 or 6, in the late '90s. Tried some others including mandrake and suse. Switched to debian soon after, and to Ubuntu with breezy badger (2005). Still on Ubuntu today.

#MyFirstDistro attempt was Slackware on floppies on the family Packard Bell 486. It went poorly.

Much later, Mandrake (or Mandriva?) on a Live CD, then Ubuntu, and eventually, a successful Slackware install for day-to-day use.

My first Linux distribution was LinuxPPC which I got on the May 1999 CD for MacAddict magazine when I was eight years old. Didn't really know how to do anything in the terminal back then (that'd take a couple years) but I messed around so much with early GNOME and KDE apps, they felt so alien.

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#myfirstdistro was #knoppix. Those were the times...

#MyFirstDistro was Jolicloud, an Ubuntu derivative for netbooks, which went on my trusty eeePC. From there, Ubuntu Netbook, and then, there was no turning back.

#MyFirstDistro was Mandriva in 2009. I remember it was cute. Still think this skin for Kopete is the best I've ever had in any messenger ☺️

My first distro, if we mean *nix systems in general, was Solaris back in undergrad. It was cool and all, but really just introduced me to the idea that there was more than Windows and Mac out there.

But many years later, I tried Linux Mint (sometime around Olivia, IIRC). That caught my attention—it made a system that Windows slogged on go much faster. First I used MATE, then Cinnamon, then XFCE. And when I found myself hankering for more efficiency than Mint XFCE could provide, I dove into Arch Linux, and that was when the addiction proved permanent.

#MyFirstDistro #Linux #Solaris #LinuxMint #ArchLinux

@marado #myfirstdistro also was #MiniLinux. Not many people know that distro but since I didn't have much disk space and my PC was shared with my brother, it was my only.

#myfirstdistro was #Slackware in 97ish. I was going to school for CS, and even thought I bought a C compiler for my Amiga, it was too different to use for school assignments. A classmate introduced me to the idea of trying #Linux . I picked up Slackware because it sounded neat. It took me 3-4 days to get #Xwindow working on a Compaq laptop, but I got it working, and that was the start of my long journey with Linux. Slackware teaches you a lot about how Linux works.

#myfirstdistro was #Slackware, almost thirty years ago.

It was installed using a null-modem cable and needed a boot floppy disk to start.

The computer was a small laptop with monochrome display, 2 MB RAM and 50 MB hard disk.

I still have the boot & root floppy disks somewhere.