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Who was your first?(lemmy.world)

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hglman@lemmy.ml
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Redhat 2.1, a cd stuck to a huge book

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methodicalaspect@midwest.social
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7.0.90 here, that one had kernel 2.4. Been a minute.

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PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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Wow, nice! I started on 6.1.

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cosmicrose@lemmy.world
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Ubuntu, before Unity came along

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umbrella@lemmy.ml
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to be fair gnome3 was a hot steaming pile of shit when it released, and was still bad for literal years. i say that as a gnome user, but i’m sorry, it was unusable for a big stretch of time there.

as much as i dislike canonical for pushing snaps, Unity makes sense to me under that light.

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umbraroze@lemmy.world
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Slackware 3.0 in 1996

Then this new promising distro called Debian

Got my own PC, went with Slackware again for some God-forsaken reason

Debian again and that’s where I’ve stayed for most part - I tried using Ubuntu as a desktop laptop distro for a while but at some point I realised I should have installed Debian to begin with so I went with that there too

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Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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Slackware for me at about the same time. Installed from 3.5" floppys.

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121mhz@lemmy.world
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Slackware on 3.5" floppy’s FTW!

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Thann@lemmy.ml
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Knoppix STD

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pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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Klaus would be proud

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tupcakes@midwest.social
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Mandrake mid 1990s

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forgetful_fox@lemmy.world
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I’ve still got my Mandrake 9.2 CDs somewhere that a friend burned for me. Didn’t dig the rebranding to Mandriva.

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Sidewalker@lemm.ee
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My people! Their screenshot gallery was the sole reason I got into Linux back when I was in the sixth grade. The skills I learned by using it as my daily driver got me a job at a web hosting company and started a very fulfilling career.

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