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 ~7. Back them I had dial-up internet, but got the install CD from a magazine.
VoyagerOS - no idea about anything other than Windows being a thing, less of a clue about what I was doing, think I read something about it being lightweight and guessed it fit my needs.
Ubuntu 16.04
Debian. Can’t remember the version. I copied the images on a handful of floppy disks and ran a graphical desktop OS off 32MB of RAM and 200MB of storage.
Never really moved away from that since then, except when using a piece of hardware that came with something specific.
It was SuSE 5.3, in 1998. That’s about the time I went to Linux workshops with a HAM club, getting into packet radio, AX25 and stuff. Good times
Linux Mint
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 😎
Kubuntu 14.04 burned on a CD my brother gave me when I started studying programming. Switched a lot along the way and ironically ended up on Kubuntu 23.04. I love KDE.
I learned on Red Hat back in the 90s
I had got a copy for free some place, so I taught myself how to install and use it
SimplyMEPIS, I really liked it & after it was discontinued I switched to Ubuntu
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
Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu, I kept distro hopping but I still kept on coming back to it until I switched to Arch Linux.
I still use Ubuntu for my servers though.
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.
Installed and tinkered with Mandrake 6.0 First full time: Ubuntu 04-10. Warty Warthog
