▲ 49 ▼ What was your first distro? (piefed.world) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev 87 comments fedilink hide all child comments Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol
[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (3 children) Slackware on a whole lot of lettered floppy disks. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children) Slackware was my first linux distro, but would Solaris or SunOS count? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] higgsboson@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) No, but bonus credit. I went Vax VMS, DEC Alpha DUX, Slackware, slowaris (x86 Solaris), Redhat, then LFS, Gentoo, RHEL, Solaris 9, and then eventually a little of everything else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago Yea very similar progression, I ended on Debian (so far), and Bazzite for gaming. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children) Slackware was my first linux distro, but would Solaris or SunOS count? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] higgsboson@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) No, but bonus credit. I went Vax VMS, DEC Alpha DUX, Slackware, slowaris (x86 Solaris), Redhat, then LFS, Gentoo, RHEL, Solaris 9, and then eventually a little of everything else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago Yea very similar progression, I ended on Debian (so far), and Bazzite for gaming. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) No, but bonus credit. I went Vax VMS, DEC Alpha DUX, Slackware, slowaris (x86 Solaris), Redhat, then LFS, Gentoo, RHEL, Solaris 9, and then eventually a little of everything else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago Yea very similar progression, I ended on Debian (so far), and Bazzite for gaming. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago Yea very similar progression, I ended on Debian (so far), and Bazzite for gaming. permalink fedilink source parent