What was your gateway distro /g/? Mine, like most people's,

Crunchbang

and like most people's, I went back to ubuntu after trying out other distros.

it just works

SimplyMEPIS
ubuntu wasn't a thing yet

Knoppix

>>61772132

>it just works
>has a fuckton of PPA's

>>61772124
i was so fucking done with windows that i tried to download mandrake to put it on floppy disks. using dialup i think i got half of them.

eventually started with ubuntu a few years later but distrohop for a while, like everybody else. been on Arch for around 10 years. now i have to switch because douchebags dropped i686 support.

>>61772142
To expound a bit, I had used Fedora Core 2 some but Knoppix was the holy shit this is awesome distribution. Ubuntu existed at the time, 2004 I think but it wasn't quite what it is today

mandrake

>>61772181
i first heard about ubuntu around when 6.06 came out
naturally it wasn't instantly well known to begin with

>>61772124
Linux Mint 8 or 9

>>61772181
Expound does not mean what I thought it did but forgot to look it up before posting

>>61772178
>i686 support
dude, just get a 64bit machine

>>61772178
there's nothing stopping someone from making their own i686 binary repos for arch
the arch devs just don't want to compile everything twice when so few people are still using i686

>>61772165
>has a fuckton of stuff I use
because I _wanted_ to do all the work myself

>>61772124

mint 14

>>61772124
BackTrack 2,sadly.

>>61772124
Same. I think the first one I've used was 12.04 or 12.10. Went through most distros (Ubuntu > Fedora > Debian > Arch) but went back to Ubuntu, because I'm a casual user and it just works.

arch

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>>61772351
not as sad as mine.

My first distro was Red Hat 5.5, from a disk included with a "learn linux" book my dad had bought me when I begged for it, sometime in the late 90s. Probably 1999, because I think I was about 9 years old. I was fascinated. I spent a lot of frustrating time just trying to get my dial-up to work. I wanted to be a REAL 1337 |-|4x0r. Used linux ever since but never actually learned much about hacking.

Funny story, I gave up trying to hack after I told the sysadmin on a shell account server what a 1337 |-|4x0r I was and he joked "I guess I better call the FBI." Ten year old me freaked out and unplugged my computer for days.

Slackware in like 1996. It was wild. I met the dude who made it a few year later at a LinuxWorld Expo. I shook his hand and said that Slackware was pretty chill. Over, nice guy.

I then moved onto Red Hat after they were the first to implement package management. (Honestly, compiling everything from source gets old.) Then Debian, then FreeBSD, then CentOS, then Ubuntu, then back to Debian. Then Arch Linux for many years. Then back to Debian, which is where I'm currently staying.

Mine was also Ubuntu, but back in 2007 before that interface.

on a related note, anyone here paid for linux? or paid for something like a magazine /because/ it came with a copy of linux?
i once bought a copy of fedora core 5, as at the time i was still using dialup, and 2 dvd's worth of packages was enough of a convinience to be worth paying for

I have only used xubuntu. It works, why bother

>>61772582
Before 56K dial-up, it was a real pain in the ass to download ISOs. Also, CD-RWs were pricey and spotty back then.

So, I sometimes paid money to have a company ship me a burned CD. It was only like $3 or something quite reasonable. They were called Walnut Creek CDROM. That company was popular back in the day... they were even the official distributor of Slackware.

Mint for desktop.
CentOS for servers.

Libranet - it was debian with installers to help set up your graphics drivers. If I remember rightly it was a father and son team and the father sadly died. Was great at the time, I even legit bought a copy to support them.

Linux Mint, 2 weeks later I switched to Arch and have stayed with Arch since.

>>61772621
oh yea, i remember services like that
never did use them though, i got a cd writer pretty late, already had 56k at that point (and writers were reasonably reliable)

>>61772124
I wanted a CS server, and Debain was the gift I found.

>>61772377
I'm sorry

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>>61772124
Pic related. I still remember the smell of the box, comfy as fuck. It was pretty good, but I moved to Slackware after a year.

>>61772124
mint

Got bored with it though since it added nothing.

>>61772124
I started off on FreeBSD moved to OpenBSD, but for work I now use centos or rhel depending on the client, but use OpenBSD in my personal stuff.

First distro I tried was Damn Small Linux on a liveCD. I was impressed, you could comfortably browse the web on firefox with it.

>>61772124
debian with i3wm, comfy af

Manjaro

>>61772582
Of course, everyone had to pay for it back in the 90s and early 00s. Even downloading just the kernel (which was something like 30mb) used to take hours.

>>61772124
It all started with SuSE 9.2. I think it was on the CD of a computer magazine.

>>61772124
Slackware, in late 90s

>>61772124
antergos. I'm on ubuntu now but thinking of a switch just for fun.

>>61772124
Mandriva

slackware no gui

>>61772178
Jesus. What x86 machine is worth using these days without x86_64??

>>61772124
SuSE.
I had already been using GNU+Linux for 3 or 4 years when the first ubuntu release came out.

I started out with Xubuntu. I had shitty hardware. I eventually moved to Crunchbang and that ended up being what truely got me into linux.

>>61772124
Slackware '97
I'm old

>>61772124
Ubuntu, but the first distro that really woke me up and made me start to learn how things work was CrunchBang.

>>61772178
I recommend switching to Void GNU/Linux. I used Arch for 2 or 3 years and Void seems to be a great alternative that lacks systemd.

>>61772224
>tfw every 64bit machine has Intel ME or AMD PSP

>>61772124
Yeah the gateway to nsa's favorite Linux kernel

>>61772124
Knoppix 3.2

why do we hate systemd?

>>61774197
meme

>>61774166
>Crunchbang
Now that's a distro I haven't seen in a long time. Is it dead? It was the go-to distro for ricefags

>>61774228
>not taking freedom/privacy seriously on the technology board
come on, man

>>61774254
It died, there are two successors. CrunchBang++ (unofficial, I believe), and Bunsen Labs (official). Haven't checked lately to make sure they're both still alive. My configs that I went on to use with Arch and Void are still largely based on configs from CrunchBang. It really was a nice distro to learn on.

Slax

>>61772124
fedora with compiz wobbly windows around 2006

>>61774571
I knew Linux was for me the moment I discovered wobbly windows.

>>61772377
I'm calling bullshit.

>>61774217
It's one single gateway for the destruction of your entire system.

>>61772124
Linux Mint was my very first distro, but the distro that turned me to using Linux full time was Xubuntu, and eventually Antergos.

>>61772209
I made a script that opens dict in a terminal and you type your word in. I hated typing in the dict -d gcide for some reason. It's my first script and ugly.

#!/bin/bash
# Dict Script

echo "enter your word"

read varname

dict -d gcide $varname
exec $SHELL

>>61772124
mint

>>61772124
Linuxlite.

>>61772124
Mint
It just works

>>61772124
mint

Unironically Backtrack 2 or smth. I obviously didn't use it as a main driver.

arch

not even joking
the installation takes ~10 commands and most of them are on script, so 2-3 commands

format the drive with cfdiks, run the script, reboot and boom ~5 min work with 10 mb/s netspeed

>>61772124
Windows XP

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Elementary

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>>61775218

Arch

>>61772141
Redhat
Simplymepis wasn't a thing yet

OpenSUSE

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>>61772124
I used Ubuntu with LXDE on my first (shit) computer in middle school. pic= my feelings towards it now.

I currently use Debian as my main OS after distro hopping throughout high school.

Started with Debian, eventually end up in FreeBSD.

>>61772124
Unironically Arch. People said the install was hard, so I did it just to see if I could. The install guide made it easy af and I felt like I was lied to

>>61772124
Puppy linux.
I asked my father to fix the beat up antediluvian vaio laptop that was his before it ended up being mine because it was so shit he wanted nothing to do with it. He tried xubuntu at first but even that was too hard on the poor machine.

>>61772124
TempleOS

Ubuntu, then Debian, then Kubuntu, then Debian, then Windows, then Debian, and as of about two months ago Fedora, and overall I'm happy with the switch.

>>61772132
Linux for plebians.

>>61772181
Yes, back then canonical still had integrity.
Silly tripfag.

>>61772124
Solaris at university then Mint at home.

Bash on Windows 10

>>61772124
ubuntu

>>61775903
i think they meant hardcore

ubuntu > ten different distros over five years > return to ubuntu where life is comfy

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Gutsy was my first Linux love

Crunchbang followed by Manjaro. Beautiful distros. Now I'm rockin' Antergos and I'm probably gonna go full Arch soon.

>>61774217
Spread too thin

Arch, like probably lots of others, I started elsewhere, but picking up Arch is the moment I'd say when I really got hooked, and started diving deeper into this shit

>>61772124

Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Loved everything about it but was a noob and could not figure out how to get that fucking Broadcom wi-fi shit to work...Went back to Windows and years later intalled Xubuntu 14.04 on an old notebook and was blown away. Have been using Xubuntu/Arch ever since...

>>61772165
>not compiling from source

Started with Lubuntu on an old piece of shit, came back to Xubuntu when I started uni.

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>>61772124
the first distro I really used and installed myself was fedora
I stuck with that for a while before jumping to arch, finding the community arse and then installing Gentoo.
I then found I needed a specific compiler which only has a .deb associated with it so I then installed kde Neon

>>61772124
Here's my distrohopping history
Ubuntu > Mint > Kubuntu > Ubuntu > ZorinOS > KDE Neon > Ubuntu > ZorinOS Lite

I stopped at Lite because it's UI is great and XFCE is honestly the best DE I've used. It's not as difficult to customize as Unity/GNOME and it's much lighter. I did like KDE but my only experience with it was the unstable mess of the KDE Neon's (plasma) "stable" branch which still crashed often.

I'm currently thinking of moving to a more up-to-date distro or update my kernel since the current one sucks for my AMD GPU.

I've also tried Ubuntu MATE, Solus, Fedora, Manjaro, Lubuntu and Linux Lite, but haven't used them for more than a day.
Fedora had the best hardware support for my PC (probably because of more recent kernel/drivers, or Wayland). the only reason I didn't stick with it was because
1. Most normie software is compiled for debian and I can't be spoonfed with muh games
2. After the installation it booted me into the GNOME desktop and greeted me with a "GNOME has crashed" window. Everything worked fine, but even a silent crash after installation is discouraging.

>>61774197
They don't, consumer core 2 and pentium 4 systems would be fine

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Crunchbang++ until I started doing development and realised stable Debian has super outdated packages.

Moved to archbang - now I have a neckbeard, weigh 200 pounds, and consume doritos with mountain dew.

>>61772124
Mine was Mandrake Linux.

You probably haven't heard of it.

>>61772181
Knoppix was up there.
One of the first distros to really nail being a portable OS.

Now you can install just about any distro to even a CD and run it but it wasn't so back in the day.
Of course, now flash drives are ubiquitous, so using a ROM based bootable distro doesn't really have much advantage anymore.

>>61772124
slackware 8

>>61777970
I tried to use it on my IBM Netvista A20.
Almost a month downloading the iso and then, I can't use because I didn't have a CD recorder

Mandriva

Back when ubongo was giving out CDs for free in like 2005. Loved how fast GNOME2 ran on my shitty little amd Compaq machine.
A year later I really got into linux and started using Debian.
Getting into linux and shit is great when you're in middle and high school, because you have all the time in the world to read wiki's, try out DEs and WMs and distrohop to your content.
Nowadays I need something that just werkz, so I have a script that installs and sets up arch for me on my main computer and a default Debian install on everything else.

>>61772124
it was backtrack 4 (than i realised that im stupid and that i know only to ddos with ping packets )
so i switched on ubuntu and now im on gentoo ofc

Ubuntu 10.04 i was 11yo

>>61772124
tails

q4os

>>61772124
So was mine op

>>61772124
kubuntu

>>61777298
Until this day, I still don't know how to make my broadcom wifi card works with Ubuntu. I replace it with a Intel one but it still disconnects like every 10 minutes.

>>61772124
mandriva and ubuntu 8.04, i dont remember which i tried first but my photography teacher was a massive mandriva shill.

Xubuntu master race

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>>61772124
Yellow Dog Linux (PPC, RHL derived distro for PS3)

>>61772124
old linux mandrake with enlightenment

>>61772165
But they aren't a pain in the ass
For example I added the chrome ppa and it keeps chrome updated along with everything else

>>61772124
i dont remember. it was a cd that came with a linux book that i got from a library

Arch and the second pacman -Syu 6 hours after setting up.

Mandrake.
it was fucking perfect

and the paid edition was even better


i never understood why people didn't bought it


ubuntu used to awfully suck cocks back then, eg uninstall one package -> boot into terminal

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Debian after witnessing the puke-inducing piece of amazon bloatware that Ubuntu was

>>61772124
Oh, you know, I just downloaded linux kernel compiled it and added everything little by little to make my own distro.

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>>61772124

>>61780013
the only thing it misses is last one to be hackintosh on an iMac

>>61772124
Ubuntu. Super easy to use, lots of hand-holding. Unfortunately, the cracks start to show after a while. Random error messages every time I logged in, despite not using it for anything besides basic web browsing and word processing. I was too new to understand what the error messages meant.

Fast forward two years later, and I uninronically enjoy Gentoo. Comfiest I've ever been.

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>>61772124
ubuntu with unity on a chromebook because chromeOS was shit. I needed something to play counterstrike on and ubuntu was the best solution, kek.

Went from ubuntu to arch to gentoo to debian and now here i am back at ubuntu.

>>61772142
This

>>61776603
I bet you have listened to less than 3,000 albums. Can you even read sheet music?

fucking peasants! when will they learn?

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>>61780095

>>61772124
debian 6, then fedora and now opensuse

>>61772124
LFS

>>61772124
Debian -> Arch -> Debian -> Antergos -> Debian

>>61772132
>ubuntu
only idiots go back to ubuntu.

absolute rubbish

ubuntu is for those plebeians who cant understand anything better.

it is literally trash tier and just about any distro I can name is better.

unless if your some type of stupid, then ubuntu is probably a decent choice

>>61781564
>and let me provide this firm foundation for my opinion.

>>61781685
dont need to validate anything to you. you wouldn't listen if I did.

Ive used linux for years as a daily, no other OS's, I work with a paravirtualized linux server farm using xen.

ubuntu is shit. it is poop. is is the lowest plebeian tier of linux available made to cater to the lowest common denominator of the computing society

>>61781773
Why is it popular then? Why don't devs develop normie software for the fedora/SUSE base instead? Why did Valve use debian as their base?

>>61781685
honestly ubuntu is great if you cant figure out how to into a real linux distro.

Its like riding a tricycle because you cant quite figure out a bicycle tho

>>61772124
first distro: lubuntu
gateway(to current level of autism) distro: arch
active use distro: manjaro

>>61781773
>ubuntu is shit. it is poop. is is the lowest plebeian tier of linux available made to cater to the lowest common denominator of the computing society
>and here's why I personally think so:

OpenPEPE

>>61781810
simple: catering to the lowest common denominator. develop software for an OS that the largest number of plebeians can understand.

RHEL is acutally one of the more popular distros for servers and MUCH MUCH software is dev for it. Fedora and SUSE are basically RHEL forks

>>61781810
>why did Valve use debian
probably because its better than ubuntu. dunno, thats my guess

>>61772165
>has a fuckton of PPA's

So? Still just works out of the box. Nice try, shill.

>>61772165
>has a fuckton of PPA's
Which is a good thing.

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>>61781836

Ubuntu: It jus werkz

I *think* my installation progress was:

>2007-2009: very early distrohopping: Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and Ubuntu variants like Kubuntu
>2009-2010: vanilla Ubuntu as main install
>2010-2011: Xubuntu as main install (or maybe I just installed XFCE? I don't remember...)
>2011 (for a few months): Linux Mint
break to be a windows babby, after some disillusionment with the hardware support on my weird/crappy laptop
>2015-current: Arch

And that's it, I think.

>>61774188
I agree, void is a really good alternative, it's the true arch philosophy without the botnet bloat called systemd and the main repo has i3-gaps and polybar, the perfect setup for autism rice.

>>61774188
>>61782070
Can I get a quick rundown of non-systemd distros?

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Arch.

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>>61781836
>and here's why I personally think so:

i think this image will succinctly answer that question

>>61772124
Knoppix

>>61772124
slackware 10
i started from what i thought was most difficult distro and googled my shit, so now ubanto is a breeze
never finished installing lfs though

Fedora 24
It is the only distro which supports the Gobi3000 modem in my chinkpad out of the box

>>61772124
Ubuntu chased me away the first time I tried it. Mint got me into Linux full time and have some moved to Antergos. (I just wanna use it, not read the whole Arch wiki.)

>>61772142
Another one having first used Knoppix. But first distro I installed was Ubuntu.

>Mine, like most people's, was ubuntu
For millenials, sure.

>>61772582
You can say I did. I bought a magazine that had the live CD but hadn't bought it just for that.

Kubuntu or openSUSE?

Raspbian

>>61772165
This, it's no big deal though, I am thinking of moving to Fedora still, because latest software

>>61774188
>thinks everyone dislikes systemd
Though Void's runit is comfy.

>>61782129
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#GNU.2FLinux_distributions

Glorious Deepin

Ubuntu 5.10
ubuntu back then was comfy as fuck

>>61774197
wrong
simply pick CPUs without the vPro technology, the much loved 7700k has no vPro, but I avoid Intel out of principle for their evil practices.

>>61782134
WM and possibly config? Seems actually useful instead of being stupidly riced.

>>61781685
I hate Ubuntu. I immediately lose respect for anyone who runs it, and especially those who advocate it. Here’s why:
Name 20 features, release-for-release or year-for-year that have not come from Redhat. Redhat basically runs the show when it comes to Linux. This includes things like NetworkManager, Gnome, Xorg, GCC, glibc, LVM, KVM, kernel, file systems et al. Redhat has developers making significant contributions to the entire FOSS software stack upstream.
Ubuntu on the other hand pulls most of the heavy weight packaging from Debian with each release. They then perform minor patching and testing. It generally lags behind Fedora by a release or two in parts of the software stack. I never see @ubuntu or @cannocial email addresses in upstream changelogs.
So tell me again, how exactly does Ubuntu innovate? They even struggle to release a new theme with each release, and artwork is about the only original thing in Ubuntu.
Yes, Ubuntu is stable because they are standing on the shoulders of giants. Most of the hard work is hashed out before they ever import software into their repositories. This is fine, and what FOSS is all about, but I prefer to be in with the leaders rather than the followers.
What really irks me and what has really brewed my hatred are Ubuntu users. They seem to think Ubuntu is responsible for all that is good in the FOSS world. I have just proven how false this is. In my experience, Ubuntu support mechanisms (IRC, mailing lists, forums) are much less helpful than the alternative.
If you want a nice desktop distro, run Fedora or OpenSUSE. If you like control, run Gentoo. If you need stability, run RHEL/CentOS or Debian. But please, don’t feed the idiot magnet that is Ubuntu!

>>61782206
It like one page. But Antergos is just an Arch install script as far as I know so you just bypass the boring parts on installing Arch using it.

>>61772124
Mint 18.1 KDE
Distro hopped for two months until I settled on Slackware.

>>61782382
PREACH

There's literally no reason to use anythig other than Ubuntu or Fedora

>>61779733
Install wl or b43 (check archlinux wiki)

>>61782389
Yeah, I get that it's not a huge deal to figure out. Sometimes the Arch wiki just pisses me off to try and figure out. Can't put my finger on what does it though.

yeah, ubuntu was the first linux I was comfortable using, I started using it in 2005. I used it until 2008, when I switched to Debian, and I've been using Debian ever since

>>61782382
>all that gibberish
And in the end, Ubuntu just works and does everything all other distros do or does it even better

>>61782382
>named tripfag

opinion discarded.

>>61782503
Can't tell if trolling or just really stupid.

>>61782382
>>61782134
Oh boy.

>>61782566
?

>>61782382
True. The only useful software made by Canonical in my opinion is/were Bazaar, Upstart, Mir, which are all dead/dying.

>>61782631
Stupid it is.

>>61782382
>Ubuntu is responsible for all that is good in the FOSS
Not all, but they are still responsible for majority of those things. And you're just an idiot.

>>61772184
mein negro

>>61772124
windows 3.1

using frozen win 7 for a decade. feels good man

>>61772124
Ubuntu.
3 or 4 years later i switched to Arch because Ubuntu break after every major update

Started with OpenBSD in 2007 for my personal usage then we got a big contract and had to start using CentOS/FreeBSD for work.

OMV :D

>>61781860
RHEL is based off of Fedora you nonce, and SUSE was originally based on Slackware and became its own OS in the late 90's.

I used a USB bootable Ubuntu before to grab files when my Windows install died one time but the first distro I actually installed and used was Debian. I didn't make any backups and it quickly broke.

Fedora.
Then I installed Ubuntu and never looked back.

>>61772124
Slackware in like 2004. I've used Ubuntu, Debian, #!, Mint, CentOS, slitaz, Backtrack/Kali, and FreeBSD for a while. No recollection of the order. Thinking about trying Arch or suse

>>61780131
What version of counterstrike are you playing on that?

>>61772377
I'm happy.

>>61778584
Aww, come on! I started with BT2 and was doing blind sql injections my first week. Hacked a few Gibsons and got bored. Moved to wifi cracking, and soon came to love all of the networking stuff Linux has available. Good times. Now, I'm just paranoid as fuck.

some old ass version of mandrake linux which was installed on my first laptop

>>61772128
Same. Fucking loved that distro.

>>61772124
Linux mint back in the day. Wasn't too bad. I go for proprietary or at least well used/fleshed out OSes nowadays.

>>61781869
Ubuntu is based on debian. They're fully compatible. The question was why did Valve choose to go with the Ubuntu and Debian ecosystem instead of using Fedora/RHEL/SUSE which are far better.

>>61782281
OpenSUSE is better imho. Kubuntu is fine if you want a debian base.

>>61784140
Arch is good for minimalism, SUSE has a lot more tools pre-installed and feels more professional. Probably the most professional distro out there. But it does have it's issues like everything else. you can try Gecko Linux if you want SUSE "bloat-less".

>>61772124
Arch.

I just started, but the idea of an intense learning curve to better understand Linux sounds more enticing. But I don't quite have the courage to install Gentoo yet.

>>61772450
Why did you switch to Debian from Arch?

>>61772124
opensuse i think

>>61772124
Believe or not, it was Arch.

>>61772124
Fedora > Mint > Debian > Arch

Arch, I saw a video on how to install Ubuntu and it looked too easy and boring. I wanted to learn some Linux , so I thought Arch would be the right choice.

arch
switching to fedora soon

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System V

>>61775903
The only "hard" part of installing Arch nowadays, if you are a noob, is partitioning.

>>61772124
I used Arch in a VM for a while, then installed Ubuntu on metal.
Haven't changed since.

>>61772124
Arch.

Fedora had an unintuitve package manager that fucked all my emacs paths.

Ubuntu was constantly holding my hand when I just wanted to be a big boy and do things myself. Then kicking me in the nuts whenever I tried. Also the DE is trash (you can't change it easily) and searching for apps is retarded. Also,
>updating every 6 months
>memeManWithMoustacheMakingOkWithHand.png

Debian is actually pretty nice, but comes with too much bloat and it makes me feel alone.

>>61772124
Windows 7.
I realize how superior windows was and left ubuntu

>>61772124

kubtunu

fedora was my first linux

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>>61788132
what was your first fedora?

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Overall first was Turbolinux, because it came with Linux Journal. Used a lot of muLinux because I learned on an old system.

Fedora 14. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but I had fun with it. Even then it made windows look like a pile of turd.

>>61782352
That's not a perfect method for telling if there is Intel ME. All newly released CPUs for sure have ME.

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>>61772141
more like SimplyPENIS amirite :DDD

>>61782465
>bow down to red hat
no

debian, such a mistake because i didnt actually learn anything because missing drivers and firmware packages where i had no idea where to start.

should have started with ubuntu or mint or something but debian is dank now that i know how to use it.

>>61787349
>Also the DE is trash (you can't change it easily)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure on every distro as well as the BSDs, you can simply

>install wm/de of choice and xinit
>create simple .xinitrc file with something like 'exec i3'
>run 'startx' from a tty

how come most of the wallpapers are extremely lewd/nsfw?

I [obviously] support anime wallpapers, I think that'll give the distro character, but lewd ones seems like a genuinely bad idea

>>61789627
generally when I find a good distro, I like to keep it on a flash drive so I can put it on the computers of friends and family

>download ubuntu
>someone calls me a noob faggot on /g/
>delete it and download debian
>spend a week fixing wifi, fonts, screen tearing, adding myself to the sudo list, etc.

That was unironically the most fun i had using linux I learned a decent amount, I gotta thank the guy who made me realize linux is just a fun timesink of fixing problems and not using it productively

>>61772124
Mine was mamjaro but I ended up getting antergos and then pure arch pretty quickly

Manjaro repos are cancer, antergos was better but I just can't bring myself to trust anything but the thing itself I guess

>>61789378
Technically, this is true, and I can't find any sources backing it up at the moment, but it's not as easy as it is on every other distro.

>>61772124
Ubuntu 12.04 was the one that got me started.
Mint 13 was the thing that really got me into it, though.

>>61772128
I miss crunchbang so much... Anytime I run openbox, I still use the config file from that distro.

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>>61772582
I got these for free. These and Linux Mint were my first

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Mandrake, in 2002...

>>61772124
Mandrake Linux)

>>61772132
Nah, only those who tried to install Arch and failed, go back to Ubuntu. Those who succeeded stayed on Arch.

Do you guys want to hear my story? I'm still on windows.

red hat 9

>>61772124
I started in linux with Ubuntu Gnome on my desktop the last year and now I'm happy with Manjaro KDE, I've tried XFCE but KDE seems like a triple A desktop in comparison and its 99% stable so far although I've heard it didnt use to be the case. Eventually I'd like to try Antergos or simply Arch because I find Linux entertaining as a hobby.

I'm going to buy a thinkpad and I'm thinking whether to stick with Manjaro i3, or XFCE+i3 or go with Mint, I've tried it briefly and it basically feels like a better version of Ubuntu.

Debian, Fedora and all that stuff seems nice but as a pleb I feel more comfortable with something that just werks at least on a laptop that I'm gonna be moving around.

Anyway, for starters based on my own experience I'd now recommend directly Mint, Neon, Elementary for the "ubuntu" branch, or just Manjaro.

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debian squeeze

i still remember pimping it out with compiz and going full /wobblywindows/

>Ubuntu if i want to be comfy (it werks)
>Windows if i wanna gayme a bit (main desktop os)
>Kali if i wanna werk.(secondary laptop os)

I gotta admit, kali is slowly replacing Ubuntu on my laptop, but i got ubuntu comfy as fuck and kali running Arc Dark so peoole thinks im on a mac themed Windows or running hackintosh.

>>61772124
Ubuntu, Mint then Antergos.
>>61793379
Stop talking like that you fucking faggot.

>>61772124
My First Distro Was An Edgy Pen Testing Distro. Too Long Ago To Remember, And I Couldn't Do Anything With It To Warrant Using It.

>>61793409
keep in mind you're responding to someone who thinks kali with a dark theme is a serious choice for a permanent installation

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Jewbuntu. Quickly gained a distaste for it, went on to Debian, used Arch for a year then came back to Debian. It's just so stable and comfy.

>>61772124
started with suse year 99 can't remember version but it was a big dvd box some german manuals in it. used linux 15 years, on windog now "ignorance is bliss"

Fedora

>>61772128
>tfw #! died I just hashed out the waldorf repos and kept going with debian

Never leaving this shit.

>>61790619
This

>>61772128
This.

Debian 3.0 as I'm not underage like most people here. I switched to Windows 10 a year ago though after getting burned out of fucking Linux.

>>61782382
you forgot systemd and pulseaudio in the list of wonderful contributions Red Hat aka Lennart has made to Linux.

>>61772124
I actually started with Debian back in like 2010 because it was the only thing that would run on well on my complete piece of shit laptop I was using for schoolwork. Haven't really had to use another linux distro since, for some reason we just go through ssh on windows machines.

Suse back in 2004 or so. Was pain. Then somebody got me into one of the early releases of Ubuntu in 2005. That was also pain for a number of years. Then switched between Debian and Ubuntu for a while.

Now I use Ubuntu Gnome for playing around, CentOS for the enterprise shit I do at work.

>>61795803
I should add that I did the Gentoo meme for a bit.

>>61772128
this. #! was the best distro ever