• folekaule@lemmy.world
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    • 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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    I cant help but feel this is some sort of password reset question farming…

    Anyway,

    ZX BASIC SUSE Linux 6.1

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      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 😅

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    my first os was windows 95, but my first linux distro must’ve been whatever version of ubuntu was current around 2007/2008.

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    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.

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    Technically it was Kali on a VM. But I had absolutely no clue what I was doing (I was 9 years old) so I gave up.

    Then I tried Ubuntu to get past my parental controls. Same thing.

    Eventually had success with Mint 5 years later. Never looked back.

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    First OS was MS-DOS on a Tandy. First Linux distro was Knoppix.

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    As a kid Amiga Workbench was my first desktop environment, and then later Win 3.11 in MS DOS.

    I remember my dad toying with Linux but can’t remember which one (he did settle on SuSE though I recall). My first linux distros was Ubuntu.