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Your first distribution

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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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Ferk@kbin.social
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I think it was Mandrake Linux for me.
It no longer exists though. …I guess I’m old.

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themadcodger@kbin.earth
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Wow, me too. I was expecting to have to create a post for it, didn’t think anyone would have started there.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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After the Mandrake merge with Conectiva - what an awesome distro that was before SuSE beat it to death with UnitedLinux shenanigans! - and the mandriva progression, it still lives on as either Mageia or OpenMandriva; but my favourite of its children is the PCLinuxOS offshoot of Mandrake.

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BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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v6,1 here some 24 odd years ago

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