Was was /g/'s first linux distro? Why did you choose that distro?

fedora

because /g/ recommended it, and our computer labs have Red Hat

>Was was /g/'s first linux distro?
Mint
>Why did you choose that distro?
Someone suggested it to me

>>60457595
Red Hat 6.0. I still have the CD. I didn't choose it.

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Ubuntu 9.10
because vista was shit

Slackware, it was the best distro at the time and came on 4 floppies

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SuSE 9.2 (late 2004-early 2005).
Friend told me about it and gave me an install CD.

I've tried dozens of distros since then and lately settled on Xubuntu last year after spending a couple years annoyed with Manjaro but too lazy to switch.

Arch, looked cool riced. It kicked my ass for a few days but then i got my head around it all.

>>60457753
*Too lazy to switch before getting a new computer.

Fuduntu
Was fairly easy to use and unlike a a few other distros, it came with the drivers for my laptops wireless

>>60457595

Ubuntu 10.10. Still have the live DVD of it. I installed it out of curiousity.

>>60457595
Knoppix

>>60457595
Some older version of Kubuntu, back in the KDE3 days, I couldn't tell you what release number it was. I was in highschool and my shitty Vista computer took a shit and imploded on itself so my computer education instructor put Kubuntu on it for me. I miss those days to be honest. It was a foreign territory for me and I was constantly learning something new.

Ubuntu, they mailed me a cd for free.

Ubuntu 13.04 Gnome
Because I was a noob

>>60457864
Story?

Mint because I looked up "best beginner linux distribution" and it was the most common answer.

dunno, my employer gave it to me on a CD

my 2nd distro was SUSE because that was the only linux compusa sold. Couldn't download an ISO over dsl in those days

>>60457886
Not him, but in the early days, you could order free Ubuntu CDs on the official website.

>>60457595
mandrake

Ubuntu

Too stupid to pirate Windows

>>60457595
Red Hat, it was in 2005 and that was the only linux distro available to me at that time

Manjaro, wanted something nice and light for dualbooting, also i like the look of XFCE

>>60457595
Knoppix Live CD back in 2004. I was in school and a Linux newfag back then.

>>60457595
Mint was my first.
Windows 7 didn't like my ssd that Fry's recommended. I got had. Didn't want to return it. Ran mint. Worked good. Boring but good. Moved onto other linux.

inb4 I'd like to interject. The windows kernal is not called microsoft (ie microsoft windows). So gnu/linux is probably what was intended but just calling linux is just fine. The context fills in what you need to know.

ubuntu because 2006

>>60458394
edit: might actually been mandrake

>>60457595
Ubuntu 12.04. It was a horrible experience. Wine only worked with WoW. Graphics drivers were awful. Switched back to Windows.

Fast forward to now, my laptop runs exclusively Fedora and my desktop dual boots Fedora and Windows 10

>>60457595
my dad threw me a knoppix drive that i used for shits on my alienware (i got a great deal for $400)

Mint was my first distro. I chose it because it looked similar to windows and it had support for my printer back in 2007. Needed it for high school papers and stuff, didn't have a windows license or the money to buy a windows license at the time.

Damn Small Linux

Had to fix my Windows boot that I wrecked trying to be a hacker. Saw how useful it was and switched to Ubuntu when my HDD failed. Went with MATE because it was so comfy

>>60457595
SLES11
Didn't choose it. Work did.

liberte linux
muh deep web

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Started with Ubuntu, stayed on Arch for a few years just moved to Fedora this year. It's great

>>60457619
This.

>>60459387
>1366x768
>Uses gaps
>All those wasted space
Kys senpai

Xubuntu
It was an old pentium m thinkpad T43p so the distro had to be fairly lightweight. Worked perfectly but I've since moved on to Debian and eventually the GPU cooked itself from running at 95c for even basic tasks like watching youtube at 720p

I miss that machine

>>60457595
Slackware because that's what was available.

>>60459387
I was thinking of moving on from being a wincuck.
Should I start on Arch or Fedora?

>>60459387
Jesus christ that looks horrible.

>>60459716
Fedora is better for beginners.

Some people will tell your Arch, but I personally only recommend Arch if youre a bit more experienced.

Lubuntu on Virtualbox.
I heard Ubuntu was easy to start with and I wanted something light for Virtual Machine.

Then I took a chance, resized Windows partition and installed real Ubuntu there.

I then installed Arch instead of Windows.

>>60457595

Way back in the day I think I fucked with Red Hat before Fedora was a thing. It wasn't till years later that I became a serious Loonix user. Then again, I do Linux sys admin work, and I still run Windows as my workstation OS.

>>60457595
Redhat 4
And I don't remember why, it was over 20 years ago.

ubuntu 7.04 I think

A friend of my older brother told me to try it out, and I was using two or three computers at my desk so I didn't mind. It was really cool. Things were orange and it came with programs I already liked to use out of the box like firefox, pidgin, vlc, etc. Haven't really seen a distro since that captures that same feeling of fun. These days I use arch for the most part. I've toyed with NixOS a bit, and I might try Void soon.

>>60457595
Manjaro, still using since 2 months ago

I wanted access to the AUR and usage of pacman without the hassle of getting raped by Arch unstable packages and wit ha nice out-of the box tools and configurations.

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>>60457595

simplyMEPIS

>>60457595
Knoppix

Hard drive failed and I was about 12 so couldn't buy a new one, ran knoppix live for a long while.

Moved to Slackware when I got a new PC, been with Slackware since.

Ubuntu 14.04. I just knew Ubuntu was one of the biggest and most beginner-friendly distros and went with it.

>>60461652
>that KDE
>current KDE
What went wrong?

suse 6.4
>why
it was the only release sold at the local computer shop. downloading an install cd wasn't really an option over 64kbit/s isdn (this was before flatrates, around 10cent/minute).

>>60461799
>What went wrong?
mobile first

>>60457595
Kubuntu because my university has a Linux Install party and that is what they install there.

>>60461821
Pretty much this

>>60461799
>What went wrong?
freedesktop, dbus, systemd

^F gentoo
>pattern not found

First that actually worked for my machine, was Mandrake 7, long time ago
I was generally interested, and it came with a magazine

>>60457595
Gentoo, because I was such a clueless newb that i ended up choosing unwisely.

>>60459716
Ubuntu gnome and fedora use the same desktop you should probably use ubuntu gnome since it is easier

ubuntu, because i heard it is beginner friendly and had to use it for an internship
>internship boss : k anon lets set you up
>proceeds to install debian
>fails to get it to work because muh proprietary drivers
>fug this lets use ubuntu

SimplyMEPIS 2004.4
because my neighbour gave me a CD of it after i asked him about his desktop, which was running Slax (KDE3)

>>60457595
arch lmao

>>60457595
>Was was /g/'s first linux distro?
Slackware

>Why did you choose that distro?
Because it was 1999 (or early 2000), and it was only Debian, Slackware and RHL (not RHEL, just RHL) to choose from.

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>>60461799
there's actually still an effort to maintain kde 3.5.x, called trinity

Debian 6 because I thought it would be better to learn the root of Ubuntu than use Ubuntu. I quickly realized I had no idea what I was doing and my computer was only half usable for what I wanted to do, so I installed Ubuntu. I've used various *buntus now and Fedora for a short time, and I think I could manage Debian now, but I don't see the point anymore.

>>60462553
>but I don't see the point anymore.
upgrading from one point release to the next one without tons of glitches
running a rolling release that is probably more stable than ubuntus point releases
not getting called a toddler on /g/

started on ubuntu, ran it on a really old laptop, it was laggy af as i shouldve probably expected, thought about a lighter ubuntu version but got drunk one day and the day after i had somehow fucked up bootmgr on windows and had a fully installed arch base package on desktop

installed kde on that since i had very basic terminal ideas, then slowly got on vim/latex-ranger-qutebrowser and now i'm just wasting my life on these

>>60457595
Antergos

Because I like rolling release and AUR

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>>60457595
One of my first was Mint PPC for a PowerBook G4. It was the only way I could get reliable wifi. I had a lot of fun with it.

Debian Jessie, IT consultant (that I now work with) told me to install it, so I did.
Borked it a few times, and had to reinstall, but I got the hang of it, great distribution when it decides to work.

Elementary, but since it was so trash not that long after I started using Arch, transition was flawless

>>60457595
Vanilla Ubuntu 15.04
>Why?
Almost borke my computer after a win 8 crash almost make me want to destroy my computer

>Was was /g/'s first linux distro?
knoppix
>Why did you choose that distro?
It was the most popular distro at the time and I wanted to try this "linux"

>>60462935

Just wondering, but what was the relation between your distro and reliable wifi?

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>>60459387
>corporate brainwash eceleb
>that file browser
>those outlines
>that gap above taskbar

>>60459387
What's the icon set?

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>>60459387

Ubuntu or Fedora

Which is better? Explain why.

>>60463233
no

>>60457917
I remember that. Never actually got one though. I wish I did. would be cool to have now.

>>60463288
Piss off then moran.

>>60463299
no u

>>60463763
no u

Zorin OS because I saw a youtube video recommending it

Red Hat.... because in 1994 it came with a book for $9.99

Puppy, I could run it off an SD card on school computers to get around that awful custom XP distro.

>>60457605
Same here, but now I use Debain, I used Mint as a kid a lot

>>60465026
same. never got it working on my emachines though

AnonymousOS

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Xubuntu. I tried several and It's the first one that I tried that I really liked better than Windows.

After that I've used several extensively. It went something like.

Xubuntu
Backbox
Fedora
Ubuntu GNOME
Debian stretch
Antergos
Arch
Manjaro
Manjaro unstable

I've stuck with Manjaro unstable because it's repos are synced with Arch stable around 6 to 12 hours behind so I stay up to date and if there is an issue there will be plenty of talk about it on the Arch forums by the time I encounter it and if something ever happens that I can't resolve I can revert to the stable repos for a while and everything will be fine.

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>>60462533

Why would you want to.

It's ugly as fuck.

>>60457595
Corel Linux, which looked great but lacked driver support. Mandrake was my first "practical" Linux distro circa 2000.

Linux Mint

Because Ubuntu kept messing up.

It was Debian on an old laptop and now my desktop is on Arch.

Ubuntu.
Seemed to be easy to install.

>>60457619
Yep

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>>60457595
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>60466495
>Linux+sbase+ubase+musl
>compiled with tcc
Linux minus GNU

>>60463224
That amount of Gnome Shell Extensions is a ticking time bomb.

>>60461919
^F gentoo
>see this post

Gentoo
Because /g/ said so
I now have an actual career in Linux development

>>60457595
Fedora core 4 and Ubuntu 6.06
Getting anything that was relatively new working took a act of congress to get done

Ubuntu because it's the first thing distro you find if you look online and it looked easy to install. Went back to windows quickly and years later switched to Arch and i've been using Arch for more than one year now.
Using Arch because it's easier for developers than hunting for ppa's with Ubuntu and everything is just easier.

>>60466767
no you don't you fucking liar

>>60465758
There is life beyond the default theme you know.

>>60457595
It was Ubuntu 9.04 for me. I used XP before that and it kept giving me errors and bluescreens mostly because of malware. I got tired of reinstalling it every so often and just looked for something else, my older brother recommended it because he knew a guy who used it.

>>60465758
the default theme is nothing special, but kde3 had a lot of theme options available, very customizable

>>60457742
my fellow ol' man

my first distro was slack 8 with some early KDE. shit was cash

>>60457595
red hat or maybe slackware.

it was back in the day before VM and automatic installers. took days to download on a 56K. installing it on your only machine meant even longer as you try to figure out what that error meant.

why? there was only a few compatible distros back then.

>>60466959
But I actually do though

>>60457595
>Was was /g/'s first linux distro?
Red Hat 5.0. It was, quite frankly, the only one I both knew about and had access to. I got it on a CD that came with a computer magazine (didn't have Internet back in 1998).

I used this for years until I installed Gentoo (around 2003). Ironically I went back to CentOS for servers and Fedora for desktop/laptop after using Gentoo for a decade or so.

>>60457595
Mint
Its the newbie distro these days

>>60457595
Slackware i think tho we used red hat early on too. Like 98-99ish

Debian

Wanted something minimal but easy to use for this old acer aspire my brother wasn't using.
Now I've installed arch to see what all the fuss was about and don't really like it, probably gonna switch back.

>>60463233
Fedora make it hard to get propriety(not sure how to spell it) software Ubuntu dont

crunchbang.

Ubuntu looked gay.

>>60467401

Then prove it.

>>60457595
Knoppix.
Because I didn't wanna install.

>>60459387
>>60463212
Seconded. What is the icon theme? looks dope.

>>60457595
>Was was /g/'s first linux distro?
Slax
>Why did you choose that distro?
It had this cool feature on its website where you could create a custom live CD ISO with whatever programs in the repository you wanted.

>>60457595
knoppix
cause windows xp died for the last time

>>60460718
>Redhat 4
because of the red hat

>>60461906
>systemd
no

Gentoo

Suse 6.0. It was shipped with a book.

>>60463224
What's that text package you're using ? And how

ubuntu 10.10
I don't actually remember how, but I got there

>>60466733
>>60461919
^F gentoo
>see some retards

>backtrace
I was an edgy script kiddie as a teenager

>>60474072
backtrack*
i used that once and cracked my neighbours wifi with it
at least i wasn't as dumb as some of the people here who install the thing and try to use it as a normal desktop

>>60457595
I bought a Suse Linux box for 80€, because I don't even fucking know why.
Installed it once, didn't know what the fuck I was doing, went back to windows.
It came with two big printed manuals, admin and user. I probably didn't even read a single full page of text.

Why I chose it? I saw the box in some bookstore and thought it's what the cool kids used.

I think I was 13. Money well spent.

>>60474124
i bought a copy of fedora core 5 when i was 17
i knew what it was though, i got it because i still had dial up, and two dvd's worth of packages i didn't need to spend days downloading was well worth the $7 i paid for it

>>60474072
>they back traced it

>>60474072
same, but I didn't even know it was Linux. I just found it and used it to try and hack my neighbors wifi. I though it was just a "program" that you use to install inside VirtualBox. I didn't know what a virtual machine was, either.

>>60457595
I don't remember which version exactly but it was Ubuntu as I was about 12 (20 now so let me know if you know the stable version at that time). I remember seeing youtube videos of all the pretty and fancy effects of Ubuntu, like making the desktop look like water, set things on fire, the 3d cube to change workspace. That's what got me interested, then I tried it and dual booted it with windows. Fun time those were, I had no clue about 4chan or any memes was just having fun with technology, it's nothing like that anymore, everything's a dick measuring contest now. I wish I could go back, anons!

>>60457595
>late 90s
either fedora suse or red hat...can't remember. why? some random website with a tutorial.

>>60457595
I popped my Linux cherry with Linuxlite 1.06 because I was able to simply install it and get learn it as I used it.

Backbox, I was an edgy 14 year old who didn't know anything about technology. Then I grew up and used Linux mint and 5 years later I'm on Ubuntu. It wasn't a great first distro but it got me into Linux

Ubuntu. Used the live CD for like 5 minutes and realized Linux was a waste of time. Never again.

>>60476717
kys

>>60457595
Fedora in early 2k, because Linus made it look nice. Later switched to debian, because it was easier for me at the time.

Some Knoppix-based liveCD called "FreeWin 2005" that came with a friend's PC. He asked me to install Windows on his new PC, and I took the CD because it looked interesting. That CD saved my ass quite a few times, since for some reason it shipped with a lot of data recovery tools. Then I got an Ubuntu 7.04 liveCD somewhere and it all went uphill from there.

>>60462553
Debian is the linux distro for lesbians

Aka its fuckin cash

>>60476776
what does that mean

>>60463157
i want answer too

>>60457595
>first linux distro?
Ubuntu

>Why did you choose that distro?

To be fair i was trying to run a old MacOS on Virtual Machine but dint worked, and i lost the ISO, i got frustrated and i wanted to try something different than windows, in that moment i knew linux but dint give it a consideration, until i read that the best distro to start was ubuntu

>Was was /g/'s first linux distro?
Ubuntu
>Why did you choose that distro?
I was curious and wanted to learn more about Linux

>>60457595
mint

mental retardation

Gentoo on a virtual machine because memes

>>60477384
LIES!

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>>60477529
It's still there
I just havn't found any use for it
Besides I forgot the passwd too and too lazy to fix it from liveCD

>>60477601
>lazy
lol that's why i stopped using it too. i think i actually meant to reply to a different post. i'm too lazy to scroll up tho

>>60457927
Same, or mandriva, whichever was first back then

>>60457595
many years ago, Ubuntu. I chose it because it was pretty much he only one I knew. It came with GNOME 2 back then, it was super comfy.

>>60459438
I'm not an autistic idiot that uses a tiling window manager. I graduated from that meme

>>60459869
shuddap ya fat pig

>>60457595
Ubuntu becos of internet advisors
At first I've tried to install something through the buttons lol
but ubuntus soft center crashed and I couldnt install anything
I had pretty annoying lags with unity
then I found that ubuntu based on debian
tried debian
saw no reason why should I use ubuntu instead of debian
t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶t̶o̶o̶

>>60457619
Are you me

>>60477601
whats sage?

>>60477886
some open source alternative to MATLAB and Mathematica

>>60457595
First distro I installed as a main OS was lubuntu because ubuntu wouldn't fit on my flash drive.

>>60457917
I remember that. One of my friends in high school went around handing out free Ubuntu CDs to people.

>>60477904
oh thanks lol ans this is a fucking os :p?

>>60478037
No it's built in red hat

>>60457619
Looks comfy, was that the comfiest of the Ubuntus?

>>60457619
Vista wasn't shit, your computer was.

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this fucking thing, does anyone remember when this was making waves? was like the elementary os of pre-2010

>based on ubuntu
>tried to mimic mac os
>was a buggy piece of shit

i actually ran it as my main os to try and force myself to get it to work properly

Ubuntu mate

>>60465792
Same, Corel then a free ubuntu cd few years later I guess it was 4.1

>>60478349
Mandrake in between

Ubuntu 11.04, I wanted to see if I'd like Linux. I did.

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>>60457595
It was either Fedora or Suse Linux around late 2003 or early 2004. When I graduated high school in 2003 I fell in with some tech nerds at the community college. This was also the time when I started driving on my own. There was a computer store in the same city. I went in there and asked them if I could use their internet connection to download a Linux iso. They said they couldn't really let me do that, but they offered to simply give me and older copy of Linux on disc. I was given a pressed copy of Suse Linux, and a burned copy of Fedora.

I got home and I don't really recall which I installed first. I believe it may have been Fedora. But I preferred Suse because it was slightly easier for me to use.

I knew little about computers at this time. I spent most of my time clicking in the dark and asking questions when I could from people at school who were mostly dismissive. I knew nothing of how to use the Linux CLI, and barely knew how to do anything with Windows.

I used Linux for a while as my daily OS because the copy of Windows 2003 server edition I had as my other operating system would always get the MS blaster virus and I didn't know how to deal with it. I didn't know how to do Windows updates.

I didn't much like the fonts in Linux, and I didn't know how to change them. But the Suse Linux disc included Mozilla (not Firefox, the original Mozilla) and that was really a revelation to me. And it didn't crash from viruses.

But I didn't know how to install programs so everything I ran had to be a binary. I did somehow get MUGEN to run, and maybe a few emulators.

Eventually someone gave me a copy of Windows XP that would pass WGA and I learned how to do updates, and I stopped using Linux for the most part. Except the occasional usage of Knoppix when I would get viruses again or just otherwise break Windows XP by tinkering with settings. And sometimes it had better support for random hardware. I also liked the built in CD-burning software.

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This is the man who introduced me to Linux. He was running Gentoo on his Macbook in 2003. I thought that was very cool. I haven't talked to him in 13 years. Last I knew he was a developer for macOS.

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LBA-Linux
Because it was a one-cd install and I had dialup.

>>60478511
Lol no shit? I just fucked him in a park bathroom last night a few miles outside of SF. His prolapse was his big ticket item, felt glorious drooping over my cock.

Slackware in the early 90's, because it was the easiest CD-ROM set to acquire.

>>60459716
Arch is great for learning server administration because you learn by doing mistakes, including huge security holes. If you just want to "use Linux", go for Fedora.

>>60468197
What? Open fucking Wikipedia.

mandrake linux, was on the front cover of a magazine
probably about 2003/2004

>>60478245
never heard of it and i've been in the game since before you were a twinkle in your fathers eye

Ubuntu because there were Linux courses in my native language with this distro.

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>>60457595
red hat. it was my first exposure to linux. my brother had installed it on his laptop and showed it to me. i thought it was cool how the taskbar would slide off the screen when you clicked to hide it

>>60457595
Fedora, because most computers at my college's computer lab use it. Then move to Ubuntu, and now settled on Arch. I fell for a lot of memes here.

Gentoo
Fell for meme.
Still use Gentoo.

Mint 10
Only distro my wireless worked with out of the box.

>>60457595
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>60478245
gOS oh dear lord. I remember when it began to die and people were trying to give it merit as a netbook OS. Thank God that project died a horrible death with peppermint.