I’m new to #Lemmy and making myself feel at home by posting a bit!

My first Linux distribution was elementary OS in early March 2020. Since then, I’ve tried Manjaro, Arch Linux, Fedora, went back to Manjaro, and since early January 2023, I’ve landed on Debian as my home in the #Linux world.

What was your first Linux distro?

  • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Welcome to Lemmy stranger.

    Slackware back in the early 90s on a Compaq 386/SX20 💾

    • guy_threepwood@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      I used Vector Linux 3.2, which was Slackware based, mostly because it was a small(ish) download on my friend’s Cable internet connection. Shortly after I moved to real Slackware. This was probably 2003/4

      • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Honestly it still feels like home. Because I was kind of a moron and figured it would mean less to figure out, I registered darkstar.org (the default domain Slackware came set up with).

        I few years later I actually emailed Patrick Volkerding about something and he mentioned it… I felt this strange mix of pride and shame ;-)

    • jhdeval@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      Well shit you got me beat I ran Slackware from 3.5 disks in the 90s on a 486dx2. I sent away for those disks to be mailed to me. I even did something crazy with that machine I had lots of ram so I sent them off to a company to combine them together. I want to say it 8 or 16 megabytes. Bit I can’t remember now.

      • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        That’s great, I didn’t even know that was a service you could get. I remember being really disappointed when I realized that a SIMM would not actually fit in one of my 386s ISA slots 😅

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      2 days ago

      Also Slackware!

      But I skipped from my 286 to a Pentium 133 (then went a bit backwards to a 486 dx100, then ahead to some cyrix and AMD).

      • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        It was such a cool time for CPUs. Going up a generation was like getting a supercomputer. And Intel had those cartridge CPUs…

        • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          1 day ago

          Such a wild time… I started building PCs for people (even my gym teacher), it was so fun - and yeah, such a huge jump every time!

          Now I have the same build for nearly 15 years with upgrades along the way, and my servers are all decom’d t/m/m PCs.

          Edit: Jump had a typo