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What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes.

Currently on Fedora GNOME now but what about you? What made you choose your first distro diving into the world of Linux?

I wanna hear your thoughts!

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It was some weird tablet like UI that I installed on a weak old laptop to use it again.

I have no clue which distro it was but I never came across it again

[–] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

debian in 2007. still using it alongside mint

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The very first one was Fedora but it seemed very bare and I had no idea how to get apps etc.

So I switched to Ubuntu and used that for a while before distro hopping.

Now I've settled on Linux Mint Debian Edition

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Ubuntu 11 netbook remix. Currently on Fedora Onyx on my laptop and Kinoite on Desktop.

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[–] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure it was Debian in the early aughts.

[–] 4vr@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Mandrake.

And then to Debian and to Ubuntu for a good time. Now using Arch mainly to avoid Snap & Flatpak.

[–] anders@rytter.me 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@Tekkip20

My first installed Linux distro was Ubuntu 5.10. I started experimenting with Linux because my neighbour at the time said good things about Linux. He used windows himself but he also heard good things about Linux and spread the word in curiousity. Eventually I was the one of us who made the jump.

@linux

[–] anders@rytter.me 1 points 8 months ago

@linux

And now I'm on fedora 39 kinoite because I like the immutable image-based features such as being able to build my own images in the cloud and being able to roll back to any previous version if something messes up in an upgrade. And also I have more control over what software is installed on the host system because it's all written in my Dockerfile so if I want to uninstall something and all of its dependencies, I'm just gonna remove it from the Dockerfile.

@Tekkip20

[–] Armando3996@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Pop-Os in summer 2021, running Arch Linux with Hyprland now in 2024.

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