@tomxcd heard about - a long time ago (2008-2009)
Joined - 2018
Which option should I choose?

yes am indeed sacrificing my poor notifications feed in the name of SCIENCE :smug:

@tomxcd@mas.to over Lockdown a friend introduced me to it

worst mistake they've ever made

definitely noticing more people are new users than last time, always good to see :02smug:

@tomxcd
IN REALITY IN 1981, WHEN IBM INVENTED THE PERSONAL COMPUTER. I USED AN OS NOT CALLED EITHER unix NOR linuX, BUT "minix". IT HAS A MULTITASK KERNEL AND ALL THE UNIX AVANTAGES @andre_konto

@tomxcd Got introduced by an ex-friend's father with Ubuntu 12.04. Then from then on, here I am

@tomxcd@mas.to Redhat, Debian, Mandrake distros in use in between years 1999-2003, when I studied in Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Kuopio, Finland. After then kind of stucked into Debian derivites.

@tomxcd@mas.to I've used an Ubuntu Virtual Machine to code in about 5 years ago, switched over to WSL once it became useable. Have had Ubuntu servers for 4 years.
Finally jumped ship to have my main setup on Arch just a month ago. Feels good to finally be fully over on the other side.

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> 2003
old

@tomxcd I don't have an exact date but I think it's the third, but could be the second. Should I hit 3rd?

i'm 23.

@tomxcd Kubuntu 6.06 :nkoBongo:

@tomxcd I don't prefer Linux over Windows for "daily driving" ie. my local desktop, but I run Ubuntu under WSL2 and have run/still run various Linux desktop and server setups since the 90s

@tomxcd sry, but i'm to lazy to google. What is "join linux"?

@tomxcd yup, I’m THAT old. It must’ve been like 2001 or something when I first played with it. Got some Linux CD from a magazine… I’m thinking… Slackware? Maybe? It was the time I’d just gotten interested in programming. HTML and JS were new and cool. Then I started dabbling a bit with PHP. Started experimenting with a bit of LAMP server setup, and also grown tired of Windows 95 and 98. Next was maybe a Redhat? Then Kubuntu…

@tomxcd my first install was debian 3 when I was 8 years old. The time and effort and workarounds that worked got me hooked.

@tomxcd In 2007 when I switched majors from maths to CS. But I guess my first use would have been ~2000 when my dad installed it on the family computer to prevent us from bricking it?

@tomxcd I've used Linux since I've used computers because my dad uses it, but I first installed it (arch) myself a few years back

@tomxcd I miss fighting my computer and partitions to install suse from a bunch of cds while fucking my windows xp and lilo bootloader refusing to work...

@tomxcd red hat 5.0 I think? It was rough times, a lot of recompiling kernels!

@tomxcd 1997 - running Slackware on a PS/ValuePoint cobbled together with an Olivetti keyboard, some random monitor and a CD drive from a computer fair. We had all the computers in the house networked using 10Base-2, with one machine capable of starting a dial up session to the ISP on demand, using a (then) blindingly fast 56K Flex modem.

@tomxcd 20 1.44 MB floppy disks (the max download at the time, including X windows) for a 386DX with 8MB IIRC.

@tomxcd a year ago
I started with Artix and have stayed there ever since (though I do run Debian on my home server and have various installations of Fedora on other computers)

@tomxcd i started last year, because i thought that was only for computer nerds with lots of knowledge, wich i am not. But i discovered that now, lots of distro are very noob-friendly and i tried with my dying laptop. Wonders ! I didn't screw things up and even prolonged its lifespan. But i think in the mind of many "casual" people (like me), GNU/Linux is solely for people with intense knowledge 🤔

@tomxcd oh the glorious browns of Dapper Drake bring me way back.

@tomxcd @ashe Slackware on a Cyrix PR166L circa 1998? 99?

Downloaded it in pieces over a 28.8K modem connection!

@tomxcd where is the option for not smart enough to use linux windows user :firPure:​

I host my instance on linux 6 states away because there's no other choice and i just followed the tutorial, does that count?

@tomxcd a teacher gave me an older cd set of suse Slackware aroundish 1995/1996 (?)
Got it running on a spare parts Franken-PC which was a 486 with 8megs(?)…

wondering if this thing will beat the 5,408 votes on the last one

only time will tell :sataniaSmug:

@tomxcd gentoo 1.4 makes me an old fart

@tomxcd first fucked around with it in like 2017 i think with deepin

@tomxcd Some old Suse Linux in the late 90s i bought on CDs.

@tomxcd Yes, I am old, but there is no need to thumb my nose at it! 😜️

@tomxcd ubuntu 6.06 from free CD my fist linux

@tomxcd I grew up on debian on KDE 3

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SUSE 5.2, so it was in 1998 as a kid. Been through a bunch of distros since then.

@tomxcd
It was nice to learn about this new Linux, as this would allow to compile and run these HP-UX and SunOS programs at home.

@tomxcd I started with SuSE 4.x but quickly went to Debian bo, because that's what a friend used. I am old, but the friend is even older :D

These days I have ubuntu somethingsomething LTS.

@tomxcd started 1999 with CorelLinux 1.0 (yes, #Corel really produced their own distribution back then) and I've been using my beloved #KDE ever since then!

@tomxcd
I got an openSUSE book & CD from Barnes and Noble in 2005 and have been using Linux since

@tomxcd
I think with suse 2 -
IT was a hard Job to make the configfile for the LAN and the Graphiccard,....

@tomxcd around 2011-2012.
Was just talking to one of the adults at the scouts about computers and he said he used this thing called "Ubuntu"...
So I gave it a try and it kinda went from there.

@tomxcd my first was Red Hat 4.2 :)

@tomxcd I got it in 1994. First heard about it maybe 1993, unsure.

@tomxcd SuSE Linux 6.3 😳

@tomxcd Slackware 3.3/SuSE 5.1 - 1997 😱

@tomxcd :: I think I first installed Linux on something like summer of 2012? I became fixated on it after leaving middle school.

@tomxcd 2007 i installed damn small linux on my modded xbox (the first xbox)

I watched youtube in my room from my tiny tv before it was cool. 😎

@tomxcd When I built my first new computer, it was a total beast. Brand new, just released AMD Athlon64 3200+. 8 GB of RAM. Way more than a high school student should need; saved up the money from my part time job.

Only to then realize... There was no 32 bit OS readily available to actually use that 64 bits. I paid for 64 bits I was going to use 64 bits.

So that began my usage of first Debian, then eventually Gentoo.

EDIT: Research shows 2003, maybe 2004

@tomxcd around 1998/99.

@tomxcd I tried something or other in 97-98, wasn't impressed with the windows manager (very Win 3.1 looking)

Came back in 2002 and manually installed Slackware, decided that I had enough CLI in my life at work, and installed Ubuntu 4.04 a short while later, and I went running from there.

@tomxcd last option just because I was introduced to it as a child

@tomxcd Ubuntu 5.10. The last Ubuntu that had two separate ISO files for live CD and installation. And Canonical still had a Shipit service that would send you Ubuntu CDs free of charge. Delivery usually took a few weeks but it worked. I _may_ still have those CDs somewhere.

@tomxcd@mas.to 2018 because I wanted to be a "hacker" in high school and downloaded Kali Linux, which eventually led to Ubuntu 18.04 as my first Linux distro as I found and went down the rabbit hole.

@tomxcd oof, guess i'm old indeed x)

(but i pretty much grew up with Linux, so…?)

@tomxcd I was about 18 so about 2018, yea I guess I joined later than the majority :3

@tomxcd Red Hat 5.1 and Debian Slink. ‘98-‘99. Still have my brainbench master of Linux certification lol.

@tomxcd I was an innocent kid when first used it on my neightbours computer, around 1993-1996, she was studying at university and taught me some programming in basic. She also discovered me internet, irc and the email.
After that, didn't start using linux by myself until around 2007

@tomxcd I started toying around with Linux around 2011 and have used it on and off as my daily driver since. Was just beginning to go to high school at that point. Seems like yesterday. Time's a funny thing.

@tomxcd Installed it for a friend from a tall stack of 5.25" 1,200K floppies.

@tomxcd
I have no idea when I started hearing about it, but tried it for the first time somewhere around 2004-2006 (I think I used Red Hat Linux 9; Fedora seems to have been released, but my computer was a hand-me-down that wasn't capable enough).

Fedora has been my primary OS since about 2008, though frequently on dual boot machines together with Arch or (more recently) Gentoo.

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It was a Slackware around end 98 early 99. :0)

@tomxcd Ubuntu Feisty Fawn...

@tomxcd i never used Linux lol I only tried a few distros and didn't find one that I liked so I gave up, also bc customizing everything the way I want takes so much effort and setting everything up so it works is torture

@tomxcd 2007! I learned about other operating systems in an IT class and tried out Ubuntu. It was really cool!

@tomxcd Last year

@tomxcd first try a SuSe, OS/2 and Win311 on an 420Mb Harddrive

@tomxcd First Linux was Storm Linux 2000, way back when I was in High School

@tomxcd I honestly don't remember. The first time I made extensive use of it was when I got my raspberry pi 2b, but that's not the first time I ever tried it.

@tomxcd I entered the world of Linux in 2018 after a lot of influence from my girlfriend and a teacher xd

Although I already knew Linux from before, I never had the courage to try it. One day when my PC almost died I used an Ubuntu live to recover my files, and I liked it

And there was no turning back

oh dammit the geriatrics have caught up :akko_aaa:

@tomxcd Walking to the lab with stacks of floppies for the SLS and Slackware because my dialup SLIP connection to the University was still 2400bps

@tomxcd I went to high school with the person who went on to write the 'kismet' wireless sniffer. I was a big Mac nerd at the time, and he showed me MkLinux. I thought it was cool, but I didn't have a new-enough Mac to use it, so I dumpster-dived myself a 486 and loaded Debian on it from a CD-ROM I bought from Ocean State Job Lot.

Been using Linux as my daily driver since Debian 2.1-ish, though most of my early Linux days, it was YDL or Gentoo on a PowerMac G3.

@tomxcd @ParadeGrotesque
I installed Linux a long time ago, but I never joined anything.

@tomxcd@mas.to First version of linux I installed was ubuntu 9.04 from a CD they MAILED to me. This was like 2009 or something.

@tomxcd I feel like 91-03 is too wide of a space but that’s where I fit though. But in 91 I was more interested in McFarlane’s Spider-Man than even knowing Linux existed. Still, it had to be about 98 when I started using. I kicked the habit once or twice, but I’m back on it, taking far more doses than is healthy, yet I seem fine, depending on who you ask.

@tomxcd God. That was a long ass time ago. I think 1999 or 2000, and I installed a copy of Mandrake Linux I got from another kid in high school. I installed it on the family computer, and accidentally erased Windows in the process because I didn't understand partitions.

@tomxcd I was just a poor boy, windows 98 didn't love me... and was giving me the blue screen of death quite a bit in the year 2000. I couldn't afford a new computer and didn't know where to get windows discs or how to fix it. I was chatting on mIRC and somebody told me about linux. I didn't have a cd burner, so a guy offered to burn me a couple cd's and mail to me. He sent me Mandrake Linux, maybe version 7.1 or 7.2. I was surprised by how easy to set up and how much free software there was!

@tomxcd It was 1993 or 1994. The era of mail order and Computer Shopper magazine, and Netscape was only just appearing on the scene, the web had not yet taken over the world. I had just built a specialized PC to run NeXTStep, and a friend mentioned I could probably also run Linux on it, so I ordered a Yggdrasil CD through the mail. And then, I was hooked.

@tomxcd I'm ooold 🙈

@tomxcd I started using Linux 2 years ago. My first was distro GalliumOS (Linux distro meant to be installed on chromebooks).

@tomxcd Friends of mine were editing our graduation newspaper and made the mistake of not keeping every few pages in a separate file. So when rendering it consumed all the ram and crashed.
I installed Ubuntu, compiled the older version of the tool they were using, and added a whole nother hard drive as swap.
It took a while but it rendered successfully.

@tomxcd 2013 \o/

@tomxcd 1995 with Slackware after downloading each floppy with xmodem off the university's shared server. Been using it ever since.

@tomxcd@mas.to Kernel 0.98pl5. Distro was SLS.

@tomxcd As the last time around: get off my lawn! And also, I think you're missing some important distinction between 1991-1996 and 1997-2003

@tomxcd I remember playing around with Slackware on my 80486DX-33...

@tomxcd@mas.to I've actually lost track. I know I first attempted in the latter 90s on a 3 or 486, and I'm pretty sure I installed it at some point on a Pentium box I got not long after but I don't recall when. So while I clicked on the 2004-2012 it may have been before I moved in which case it would be the 1991-2003 time slot. I'm pretty sure my first Linux was Red Hat, then Mandrake.