Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry
Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)
I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)
Tails. I wasnt allowed unsupervised computer time outside of school until I was in junior year of high school (and by unsupervised I mean that when the computer was on, mom or dad had to be physically looking at the screen)
I used it to get around how well my mom and dad had locked down their laptops, which allowed me to use their hardware to watch Battlestar Galactica until 3 am. I was such a rebellious child.
Mandrake. Emailed to me on a CD. I feel old.
Slackware, dont remember the version but it was 1996.
Same here, but 1998. Red Hate soon after.
Slackware was my second, version 3 or 4 was the first I used, I don’t remember what year it was, but I’ve learned so much from it.
Knoppix Live CD back in 2004!
Mandrake in 2003, I was young and didn’t know what I was doing…
Ubuntu… before Canonical nuked it.
Ubuntu (can’t remember if it was 6 or 8) was the first distro that I used, my cousin and another family friend used it and I got interested and asked to have it installed on my home desktop.
For years, every LTS release of Ubuntu I installed as dual boot to try and experiment for a few weeks and then uninstalled it, using Windows for everything.
2 years ago, I decided that I wanted to try other distributions and to switch and use Linux as my daily driver, so I installed Manjaro on my laptop and I have been using it daily since.
Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.
Slackware, and it took years before I tried again.
Slackware, installed from a big stack of 3.5" disks
Same. What a task…
RedHat 5.2, purchased in a plastic-wrapped cardboard box from Best Buy. God I’m old 😭
Same…
It’s all a blur because I was maybe like 6 or 7 at the time, but I’m fairly certain it was Red Hat. The original, not RHEL.
I have vivid memories of playing a game that involved collecting gems and avoiding falling rocks in a maze, similar to Boulder Dash or Emerald Mine. I have no idea what it was, but I know it wasn’t Rocks’n’Diamonds because I played that a lot and the graphics were different.
Mint, because it’s what my dad put on my first laptop when I was like 10 or something. I remember playing minetest and FTL on it.
A friend of mine gave me an official Ubuntu 4.10 CD and that was my first Linux distro that I have tried.
I still have that CD.
Knoppix, on a live CD. Then shorty after, Aurox Linux, distributed as a number of CD with a magazine. Around 2004-2005. Then Mandriva.
