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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

DOS. Not sure what version, I was far too young to care. But not so young I couldn’t learn how to operate a command line interface!

[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First OS: MS-DOS, I reckon around v3 - was running on an IBM XT PC.

First Linux distro: Slackware, came on a CD-ROM on the front of a PC magazine.

[–] Brad@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think I was the same with MS DOS on my XT, because I remember buying an upgrade for a version 4.x at one point.

[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MS DOS v4.somthing. (1995)

Slackware that came on three 5.25" floppies. (1997)

First hard drive Linux: Debian.

Eventually red hat for several years, then back to Debian based (mint etc) around 2005. Been using Sid (Debian "unstable") for a long time.

[–] fobo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My first OS was Apple OS and what the NCR's ran in 1978. My favorite game was snipes on Netware in 1986? My first OS distribution via retail box was windows 1.0. My first Linux distribution was FreeBSD 2.0 er wait.... My first Linux distribution was Debian 1.1 buzz on 3/5" floppies.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

If you could call it an OS, ZX spectrum basic was my first. My first Linux was Slackware 6 or 7 installed from a string of floppies. Good times.

C64 -> MS-DOS 3 -> 4DOS -> Win 95 -> Win 2000 -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> chaotic smattering of various distros that changed almost weekly -> Mint -> Arch -> Manjaro -> MXLinux -> SteamOS (SteamDeck), Rasbian.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

PC-DOS on an IBM 5150 (iirc).

First OS was Windows XP and first Linux distro was Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS), but on my main computer the first distro I used regularly was Ubuntu

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

my first was windows for workgroups 3.11 with msdos 6.22 back in 1994; later upgraded to windows 95.

my first linux as mandrake linux (aka mandriva) in 2002 on kernel 2. i use linux fulltime now and no longer own a windows computer.

[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Comodore 64 os in the late 80's then msdos, win 3.1, etc. First Linux distro i believe was either slackware or debian.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

First operating system was DOS 4 or 5, I think. On big 5.25” floppy disks on an 8088. Unless we’re counting whatever was running on a commodore vic20.

My first Linux distribution was Red hat Linux, somewhere around 1997, 1998 and I had a really tough time getting it installed.

I also once had a trial version of os/2 warp. Which was fun but pointless.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

There's a few things from dos that have a permanent place my soul. A:/KEEN.exe, idkfa, iddqd and gorillas.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

DOS/Win3.1 I was pretty young. It was far back enough that it was still common to find Apple II's in my grade-school classrooms off to the side for when we had downtime. I regret that I was just a little too young to experience the Commodore 64 craze.

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

First OS was C64's Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 GEOS, if that even counts as an OS, the next was Amiga 500's AmigaOS

First Linux distro was Fedora

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Whatever an Apple IIe ran. Some sort of DOS from what I remember.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Windows 1998 on a Pentium2. First linux distro was Ubuntu, uh....8.04 I think ? That was much later.

[–] the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

First linux distro was Ubuntu but I used it in VM but the actual daily driver was Archlinux. I think Windows XP was the first OS which i used on computer(In home sure but in school maybe it was Windows 97?)

My first OS was Windows 98.

Linux distro was Ubuntu 6.0.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

It was a Lisa. Those were good times.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Macintosh System 7. Then I moved to Windows 98, which was the style at the time.

[–] Null@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

First OSish was what came default with the Commodore 64. My first full fledged OS was Windows 3.11. My first Linux distro was Mandrake I think 6.

[–] GlennicusM@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

First OS for me would be Windows XP.

First Linux I've tried using could technically be whatever version of Android was on my mom's Droid phone.

First desktop Linux would be some version of Ubuntu around 2014-2015

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Windows 3.11

[–] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

First OS: Win 95 (As a wee lad). First Linux: early lubuntu and backtrack that I used in college around 08-09.

[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

CP/M on a Kaypro II. My uncle was a contractor for the US air force. Even had a modem - a wooden box he built to hold a telephone handset.

Fun times.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The first one I remember using was good old Windows 98.

School: if it wasn’t a Macintosh Plus it was something like it. We were given very little time with it and had to go to a special computer room to use them so I don’t remember a lot of specifics about it, beyond the school tech guy having to painstakingly load each program we wanted to use manually from a floppy

Home: Windows 3.1. I don’t think we got the internet until Windows 95, though

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

First os was whatever was on a apple II. First linux was fedora. I spent 9 years using various red hat disteos as my main work machine.

Gaming kept me on windows at home. Now that proton let's me game i've been running mint debian for over a year and loving it.

My wife uses arch btw.

First operating system was probably either Windows 98 or Windows 2000. First Linux operating system was Ubuntu 10.10.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Windows '95. My mom didn't know the concept of backwards incompatibility and got it second hand in 2001. It was hard to find something that would run on it beyond Doom.

The first one my family owned, was Windows 95.

Not sure if the first one I used was Windows 3.x, DOS, or MacOS

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Microsoft Extended BASIC

[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Amiga back when you booted off floppies.

Then I guess ms-dos for pc.

For Linux I got a box set for redhat from compusa in 99 and learned from there.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slackware 1.0, dann S.u.S.E

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[–] redrumBot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Zx spectrum --> msx-dos --> ms-dos --dr-dos --> win95 --> Suse (before it was bought by novell) --> win98 --> debian

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows 7 -> Windows 10 -> Kubuntu -> Linux Mint -> Nobara -> Pop!_OS -> OpenSUSE TumbleWeed -> EndeavourOS

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