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?

  • emb@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Ubuntu had a thing for a while where they would send you a CD of you asked for it. Friend of mine from school gave me one.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    32 minutes ago

    Still shopping for one when I make the switch. Mint looked pretty user friendly.

    I am not a computer unfortunately, only a ungabunga caveman

  • ghewl@lemmy.world
    1·
    15 minutes ago

    In the early 90’s I downloaded Slackware to floppy disks. It took me several days to make them. Slackware holds a special place in my heart.

    To this day I still use Linux full time. Arch is my go to, but I like and recommend Endeavor often.

  • kittenroar@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    10 minutes ago

    Ubuntu – the one with the Nelson Mandela video and the picture of people holding hands in a circle.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 minutes ago

    Sometime in maybe 2021-22 I messed up something on a shitty laptop of mine at the time. Changed something on win10 and was trying to fix it to get admin privileges back on the single account on there. Some website recommended flashing Ubuntu onto a thumb drive and entering some commands on the live boot. Didn’t work out and I didn’t wanna go through with a fresh win10 install for close to, if not, $100 for everything. Ended up with Ubuntu 20.04 installed because I wanted to use that laptop.

    I’ve since tried many and currently have MX on a better laptop. At some point I’m gonna try to either find something new I can learn so that way by October I can make my desktop have a priority Linux boot with an internet disconnected win10 partition, or just go with Mint or MX. Definitely got a small list of distros I might wanna try, so we’ll see.

  • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
    2·
    56 minutes ago

    Ubuntu all the way! :) Before I learned there were other ones, then wound up back on Mint again after a trip around the houses. :)