Iām 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, Iāve tried Manjaro, Arch Linux, Fedora, went back to Manjaro, and since early January 2023, Iāve landed on Debian as my home in the #Linux world.
What was your first Linux distro?
Sadly, Ubuntu. I quickly moved on to debianā¦and ultimately landed with Arch, my true love for many years. I use Arch, btw.
Welcome to Lemmy stranger.
Slackware back in the early 90s on a Compaq 386/SX20 š¾
Honestly it still feels like home. Because I was kind of a moron and figured it would mean less to figure out, I registered darkstar.org (the default domain Slackware came set up with).
I few years later I actually emailed Patrick Volkerding about something and he mentioned itā¦ I felt this strange mix of pride and shame ;-)
Also Slackware!
But I skipped from my 286 to a Pentium 133 (then went a bit backwards to a 486 dx100, then ahead to some cyrix and AMD).
It was such a cool time for CPUs. Going up a generation was like getting a supercomputer. And Intel had those cartridge CPUsā¦
Well shit you got me beat I ran Slackware from 3.5 disks in the 90s on a 486dx2. I sent away for those disks to be mailed to me. I even did something crazy with that machine I had lots of ram so I sent them off to a company to combine them together. I want to say it 8 or 16 megabytes. Bit I canāt remember now.
I played a bit with Suse around 2000, but I switched to Linux as my main OS with Ubuntu in 2005.
Now I use Manjaro, because I like the rolling release concept, and itās easy to use different kernels, and itās a good KDE distro IMO.
In my experience itās also among the best for Steam games.
debian
Ubuntu back in 2014. Followed by Elementary not long after
Still rocking Ubuntu myself, might give mint a try as Iāve had issues with updates bricking Ubuntu.
