this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
616 points (94.4% liked)

linuxmemes

20761 readers
1676 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
poopsmith@lemmy.world
zephyr@lemmy.world
616
Who was your first? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
266 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I attempted to install RedHat 5 in the late 90s, but I had no idea what I was doing since I was like 12 or 13 and we had just gotten our first computer. I never got around to actually using Linux until a few years later with Ubuntu 5.04

[–] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You can learn a ton installing your own OS, even if you don’t get things working in the end. Especially back in the 90’s when things weren’t quite as plug-and-play and hardware auto-detection was immature. So even if your RedHat experiment failed, good on you for attempting it anyway!