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What was your first distribution? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by NABDad@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Simple question. Which distribution was your introduction?

For me, it was SLS Linux in '92-93, followed relatively naturally by Slackware, which was followed by Redhat.

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

As a kid in 1998, I installed Slackware to one of the two family computers. My parents were less proud than you might possibly think.

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

That's crazy. If one of my kids installed any Linux distribution on a computer, I'd be proud as hell.

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

RedHat here in the late 90s, back when you could still find yourself writing a "modeline."

Then Debian in the early 00s when apt was still a major discriminator. Finally, Ubuntu around 2008 just so I was running the same thing I was recommending to family members for ease of use. (At the time, Ubuntu sported the same ease of installation and hardware detection I'd found with Knoppix.)

Now on Xubuntu, but seriously eyeing a return to Debian.

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

RedHat in the mid-late 90s here too. It wasn't a great time for the linux desktop haha. I think I used afterstep or windowmaker back then. RPM hell was bad and hosed my system enough that Debian was like a savior with apt-get. Never really looked back from debian based systems since.