What was your first Linux distribution?

[midtsveen@lemmy.wtf]

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?

[the_visitor@sh.itjust.works]

Kali Linux. Because I was a kid who wanted to be a hackerman.

[midtsveen@lemmy.wtf]

Ah yes, the hacker-man vibes!

[buffalox@lemmy.world]

I played a bit with Suse around 2000, but I switched to Linux with Ubuntu in 2005.
Now I use Manjaro, because I like the rolling release concept, and it's easy to use different kernels, and it's a good KDE distro IMO.
In my experience it's also among the best for Steam games.

[the_visitor@sh.itjust.works]

After that I used Ubuntu with XFCE for 2 years, Now settled in Fedora with Gnome for like 4 years straight.

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

I can't remember if it was MKLinux or Yellow Dog, either one of these around '97~99. At the time I was also playing with BeOS and NetBSD.

[sramder@lemmy.world]

Welcome to Lemmy stranger.

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

[474d@lemmy.world]

Started with Mint and stuck with that for a year. No issues, just felt comfortable enough to try something "fancier", I guess Mint was a little too reliable lol. Went with PopOS a while for the native dock and tiling manager, loved it. Now I'm on a brand new PC build and enjoying gaming with Bazzite. No tinkering involved, it setup my 5070 Ti automatically.

[petteripano@lemmy.world]

Slackware in 1997.

I ran it on a 486SX/40 with 32MB of RAM and a 2GB harddrive.

It turned me into the man I am today.

[spider89@lemm.ee]

Ubuntu > Mint > Manjaro > Arch > PopOS > Debian

(History, not ranking [Debian wins])