Martin ThorntonAug 11, 2024
Since my only use for Windows these days is gaming and I’d really like to get away from it, after I found an old #MacBookPro (from 2006!) stuck on Snow Leopard hidden at the back of the cupboard I thought I’d give #linux a go, purely for the hell of it. Since it’s my first go and an old machine I thought #LinuxMint #XFCE made sense. Who says you can’t teach an #olddognewtricks eh? #MyFirstDistro
Julius KaiserJun 7, 2024

I'm yast installing the first Linux distro I've ever used; SuSE Linux 6.0. It took me a week to get X running back then on my 14' CRT. Really exited to see how this works out now.. Please make sure that CD number 3 is in your drive! ..and "Have a lot of fun..."

#linux #suse #retrocomputing #screenshot #yast #myfirstdistro

LazerdudeFeb 11, 2024
Saw this on my timeline, might as well join in...
My memories of this are kinda hazy, but #myfirstdistro was most likely Fedora Core 6, around 2006, on a Pentium 4 desktop PC, with many many afternoons spent playing SuperTuxKart, Torcs, Racer NL, Rocks n' Diamonds, Pingus, Powermanga, Neverball, etc. Fun times :)
Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️Feb 11, 2024

Saw this hashtag and will share, too.
#MyFirstDistro

First distro I used was Slackware circa 2000 on an old 486 computer that served as a router, hosted a phpBB, and a webpage with a hamstercam feed 🐹

All probably horribly configured and insecure 

gemelenFeb 11, 2024
Saw this hashtag and shared memories, will join too.
#MyFirstDistro
- installed on my own PC was an SuSE Linux of 10.x version, somewhen in 2005 or 2006 (that late just because I started to own a PC in 2003), so just shortly after the acquisition by Novel and rebranding to openSUSE. I use openSUSE nowadays too!
- first known to me was a RedHat that an older brother of my friend tried, from whom I borrowed a book about it and read it, since I didn't have any computer then in 2000 or so.
∴ esoterik ∴Jan 29, 2024

in terms of systems i used, #MyFirstDistro was Solaris 7 (i think) which was installed in a lab at college.

in terms of systems i ran, #MyFirstDistro was an old x86 system that i set up as a server which ran #NetBSD 1.5.2 (and which i colocated at a friend's house for several years)

Julius KaiserJan 29, 2024
Just discovered #myfirstdistro and here's mine: #Suse #Linux 6.0 - It happened at a second-hand shop for hard- and software; between Data Becker and MS Frontpage boxes there was a copy of Suse. The back-cover had a screenshot of what looked very similar to Chigago shell, just a little different. It was #KDE 2. That was when I first realised that there are obviously other systems to operate PCs. I bought that box for 5 Deutsche Mark. πŸ™ƒ One week later I managed to successfully start #XFree86 πŸ˜…
Γ“li Gneisti (English)Jan 26, 2024

I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.

When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.

Show threadDane HensonJan 26, 2024

#MyFirstDistro was some early version of Red Hat in the late 90's. My dad's IT guy from work installed it on a decommissioned box and gave it to me when he found out I was interested in trying Linux.

I couldn't believe how much software you got by default FOR FREE. All the games, the web browser, the word processing!!!

Arne BrasseurJan 26, 2024
#myfirstdistro was a boxed copy of Red Hat 5 or 6, in the late '90s. Tried some others including mandrake and suse. Switched to debian soon after, and to Ubuntu with breezy badger (2005). Still on Ubuntu today.