When did you start working around with Linux?

[buddhajoe@reddthat.com]

Commodore vic20 was my first, then a TRS80 with CP/M

[d_air1@lemmy.ml]

About the time that Windows 10 came out. I was just messing around and ended up liking it.

[untakenusername@sh.itjust.works]

when I first hear about MS recall

[secret300@lemmy.sdf.org]

I was in 8th grade so 13-14 years old right?

[filister@lemmy.world]

I have a physical CD of Ubuntu 6.10, back then they were distributing those over the mail and a friend of mine ordered some and gave me. I still keep it.

[count042@lemmy.ml]

14. Slackware from like 40 3.5 floppy disks.

[mwa@lemm.ee]

I started using linux with dual boot in June 2024 where I installed Fedora/Fedora immutable kde and bazzite.
Tried GNOME on my brother's old Laptop but using Extensions for changing one thing(and breaking every update) was annoying
I have been using Fedora till I stumbled across CachyOS
I switched to Cinnamon around this time from KDE I found kde kinda Buggy (heard it's Nvidia or smth) and it just felt uncomfortable
Around December 2024 Where I used Linux full time (no windows dual boot) this is when I found Cachyos (or arch variants) and Cinnamon comfortable the only problem is that Cinnamon doesn't have Vrr,HDR and Wayland for me but I use Gamescope if I need vrr and HDR

[luffy879@lemmy.ml]

I find cinnamon kind of useless

It just has this beige win 7 look, that is somehow both new and old at the same time. You dont have the Macros and Costumisation of Plasma, but you also dont have the rigidness and tablet-style interface of Gnome. You dont have the ressource friendlyness of xfce. The only thing it has is that it can both render qt and gtk in its own style, but xfce already does that with its very win xp like interface, which both qt and gtk have themes for

[azimir@lemmy.ml]

I still live it. I use some Atmega chips like the attiny85. It only has 256 bytes if RAM and 5 i/o pins to work with. I code in C++ so I have 100% control over memory if I want it.

Someday I'll find a reason to work with attiny10 chips... There's almost no resources on it and it's about the size of a grain of rice!

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/attiny10

[mwa@lemm.ee]

It just has this beige win 7 look, that is somehow both new and old at the same time. You dont have the Macros and Costumisation of Plasma, but you also dont have the rigidness and tablet-style interface of Gnome. You dont have the ressource friendlyness of xfce. The only thing it has is that it can both render qt and gtk in its own style, but xfce already does that with its very win xp like interface, which both qt and gtk have themes for

I agree with this kinda but I find Cinnamon more comfortable to use then Xfce but I could use xfce

[xartle@lemmy.ml]

My son's first computer was Linux. He was still toddling but wanted to hit my computer, so I set up an old one for him.

I was 14 in 1991 I should add. I switched from minix not long after I could get Linux to boot. I think that was actually 1992. Both the computer and Linux weren't very good back then ..

[sxan@midwest.social]

Man, you make me wish I'd have followed an embedded career. When I first entered the market, embedded was niche and the domain of specialty industries like the MIC. If you cut out companies like Lockheed, building stuff to kill people, the job pool was really small. But there was a window, juuust around the time I moved to management, when you could find embedded jobs. I wish now I'd have taken that fork in the path.

[peasley@lemmy.world]

Built my first PC in High School from scraps. Decided to try Ubuntu 10.04 (current at the time).

I was very impressed with how much performance a free OS could get out of my awful hardware. Have been using Linux in some form as my OS ever since.