Spelling DOS as DoS is either a cunning joke or one heck of a Freudian slip.
I started with SuSE 5 and it came with a book. I think it started with something like: “Don’t panic! You can do this!”
It was rough at first, but once I got into it I was hooked.
I dug around in old boxes and found the book!
YaST and the fucking AVM Fritz ISDN ISA Card…
A part of me is still crying when opening YaST killed my hand written configuration…
Curious if you’re still rocking suse today?
Nah I went over to camp Debian for a long time, switched when Debian Potato was released. Then when Debian kinda stalled I was lured into Ubuntu because they had the latest and greatest. I know it isn’t the cool choice these days, but I have stuck with Ubuntu ever since.
Recently tired Ubuntu on my work laptop and it was a surprisingly pleasant experience compared to all the negative things I’ve heard about Ubuntu. Especially the installer was next level simple.
Yeah I love Ubuntu, it’s really fine. But I think because it’s easy and for a lot of people their first Linux, it’s seen as like the baby version of Linux. So people bitch about it a lot, as if it’s somehow inferior to other distros. Like if you don’t compile everything from scratch you are somehow not worthy?
Hard “Real programmer” vibes. https://xkcd.com/378/
And yes, I use
pico
as a text editor, it’s fine really.Mint is basically Ubuntu without the controversial bits.
Redhat, back in 1999. Then Mandrake 2002. Then Suse 2003. Then Ubuntu 2006. Then Debian 2012-present.
But it’s funny I kept KDE since Mandrake. Same DE for over 20 years. For Redhat I was using this Win95 lookalike DE, I forgot what it was called.
Edit: I definitely did not order a couple dozen of Ubuntu’s free CD-ROMs back in the day and throw them at everyone I knew and didn’t know, including random kiosk people at the mall…
I downloaded slackware from a BBS. It took forever. It booted from two floppies, a boot and a root disk. It did not even have X. I still loved it, because I recently got into programming, and all I had ever programmed on was DOS. In Linux, you could actually malloc() with any amount, even a full megabyte! It was marvellous! Later, I installed it on my HD on a separate partition. The installation process was really fascinating, so much choice, so many new programs! At least the first time.
Still using Slackware to this day.
So… Yeah.
I will never forget when I accidentaly wiped my external hard drive messing around snd distro hopping, I lost 6000 songs that day…
/me raises hand.
Yggdrasil for me, i think. I honestly don’t remember how it went though.
I had Linux on a second SSD at home recently, but an update to the laptop’s BIOS seems to have stopped it from letting me boot from it. I only keep windows around for games, which is ironic, as I hardly play them anymore.
Work is a windows shop, but I’d rather use Linux.
I only keep windows around for games
Most games (well, those without invasive anti-cheats) run on Linux as well
I also started with Yggdrasil. A CD-ROM in the back of a massive book (printouts of all the man pages, I think).
First was Puppy on an old Dell back in middle school. Just wanted something other than the shit ass windows box my mom insisted on and the macs my school insisted on.
The year is about right. I didn’t lose my DOS partition, but I was already familiar with partitioning. Someone gave me a Slackware CD set. Had a lot of difficulty getting a higher res than 640x480 with my VLB video card.
Started a BBS at the time, switched to OS/2 Warp, which worked awesome until Windows apps moved to the new Win95 requirements. Started using RHEL for a while, but eventually Debian, then Ubuntu, and now PopOS.It’s been a long journey, but now Windows 11 is the weird OS that needs hours of troubleshooting and tweaking and adjustments. It’s just not worth the effort, so I keep an Windows 10 VM around with Office for the odd occasion when I need it.
I was born in 94 so not really. For me it was Ubuntu and nvidia drivers in 2010 or smth around that.
Ubuntu 2006 (I think), they mailed me a literal cd with it, how to resist to that.
I switched to Slackware for some time after I got fed up with RedHat 4’s broken rpm system.
It was a relief that the tar.gz packages didn’t have the habit of blowing up the OS.
Redhat 1997. Slackware, Storm Linux, then Debian 2001 to present. A brief year on the OSS Solaris release.