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apple2c, commadore64
Commodore 64 here, too.
First Linux distro was Ubuntu.
samesies
MS-DOS 5.0
- Commodore 64 (kernal)
- Amiga OS
- MS-DOS 3.2, 5.0
- Windows 3.1
- Slackware Linux
- Windows NT 4
- RedHat Linux
- Windows XP
- Ubuntu Linux
- Windows 7
- Windows 10
- Rasbian
- PopOS
Roughly in order of appearance. Personal devices only. I used many more for work.
Windows 95 and Macintosh LC, elementary school computer lab stuff. My grandpa had a Windows 3.1 IBM PS/2. Those were all pretty old and practically obsolete computers when I used those, 98SE was out and ME was right around the corner.
My very first Linux distribution experience was Mandrake Linux I believe version 9 or something like that. Didn’t last that long though, I revisited Linux later with Ubuntu 7.04 which is when I actually switched to Linux full time.
ArchLinux since 2011. Still running that install to this day!
Apple ][ e: pictures of me playing point-and-click story games.
Ubuntu 4.10 “warty”
I’m probably on the younger side of Lemmy, my first OS was Windows 98, but the first one I truly remember using is XP.
When I really started getting into computers, our family PC was running Vista, and the first nerdy thing I remember doing was trying to “downgrade” that computer to XP. My parents were none too pleased when they saw that the PC wouldn’t boot, thinking I had bricked it. It took me about a week to getting XP running properly, and that feeling of satisfaction is what started my love for tinkering with computers (I’m definitely a noob compared to the average Lemmy user, though).
Afterwards, I fell into the Apple fanboy pipeline and begged my parents for a MacBook. I was a huge Mac nerd, even saving up money as a teen for an iMac, until I started wanting to game more on PC, especially with friends on Steam. I then started dual-booting, initially XP but then Windows 7, and eventually I realized I was never booting into my Mac partition. I played around very occasionally with dual-booting Linux as well, Ubuntu and then Linux Mint, but this was more for computer nerd clout than a genuine need or interest for libre software, also the command line scared me and I still played too many games to main a Linux distro.
I then built a PC for gaming, and ran Windows 7 on it until around 2 years ago when I got really into FOSS and switched to EndeavourOS which is what I’ve been happily using ever since. I’ve always enjoyed tinkering on computers, but with EndeavourOS I feel like I’m less battling with my OS and more with my lack of skill/knowledge, which is much more rewarding to surmount, and makes me feel like my system is truly mine.
I cant help but feel this is some sort of password reset question farming…
Anyway,
ZX BASIC SUSE Linux 6.1
That would be a very targeted question! Like who would have that as a password reset question? Oh wait, the kind of people who run servers for a living! Damn, that’s clever 😅
First OS was DOS. Then Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, then Debian when this happened.
Hahahah what a story
my first os was windows 95, but my first linux distro must’ve been whatever version of ubuntu was current around 2007/2008.
Windows 95
Desktop: DOS
Mobile: Android 2.3
I started with Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 on the VIC-20, if that counts as an operating system. Otherwise GeOS on the Commodore 64.
First Linux distro was slackware 3.0.
First OS was MS-DOS on a Tandy. First Linux distro was Knoppix.
Woah, thanks for that bit of history! As someone who went from DOS to Win 3.1 outside of the US, I didn’t even know that was a thing!
First OS: Windows 3.1 running on top of MS-DOS 6.2
First Linux distro: Ubuntu (forgot the version, but it was circa 2018).
If I’d count an OS/Linux distro that I’ve used even if not in a machine I own, it’d be Linux Mint of circa 2006.
Commodore basic on the PET computer, back around 1981-1983. My grade school had three of them in the library, and since my mom was a teacher, she would sign one out for summer break and bring it home if any were available.
