Jörgi

What was your first #Linux?

In 2001 my WinME crashed in the evening & it was clear I need to reinstall it! Everything was broken, but very important stuff was on the HDD!

Luckily l lived close to a gas station, which was opened that night & they were selling computer magazines.
So I went with my last money to the gas station & bought one with an #SuseLinux DVD (or CD) & was then able to download my important data.

This was the start of my Linux journey

So thank you @torvalds

#opensuse

Mar 14 at 1:50pmWeb
Show threadjan Mar 14
@joergi Debian, vermutlich um die Jahrtausendwende. Ich hatte jedenfalls noch ISDN
Show threadBryan Redeagle Mar 14
@joergi Mandrake Linux. I got it from a kid at school that said it was free to give away. I then tried to install it on the family computer, and didn't understand what partitioning was. I proceeded to accidentally wipe the hard drive to install Linux.
Show threadJörgiMar 14
@bryanredeagle
Haha lovely 🥰
Show threadnigraMar 14
@joergi I started with Ubuntu in 2007. Since 2009 (?) I run Debian. Always experimenting with other distros just for fun.
Show threadGerrit MeierMar 14
@joergi Funny, my first Linux happened to be also a #SuseLinux bought around the same time as a physical copy. I can remember that it came with a printed manual.
Soon after this I went completely nuts with #gentoo
Show threadJörgiMar 14

@meistermeier
I never troed gentoo

But I tried Fedora, ubuntu, raspbian (Debian for the Raspi) Manjaro, Debian...

I tried one Arch but that was too complex at that time for me.

I always wanted to try NixOS and FreeBSD.
But not sure when I will ever find the time for it.

Show threadGerrit MeierMar 14
@joergi At some time I broke with gentoo because a life without watching build progresses seemed to be a good option :)
Made a "tour de distributions" (mostly Debian based vanilla/raspi/ubuntu/manjaro..) stuck on manjaro for a few years on a daily driver.
Nowadays I use Arch (*btw) based distros on desktop / debian based server. Nix has an interesting approach but it never clicked between us.
Show threadulysses_fMar 14
@joergi @torvalds around 1997, had a flat with three roommates and an ISDN line. Put a 486 in the hallway with an ISDN card and installed suse Linux as a router. Worked like a charm - besides terminating the line - which led to slightly higher telephone bills.
Show threadJörgiMar 14
@ulysses_f
Ahhh the "good old times" when you have to pay for the minutes...
Show threadFrank AbelbeckMar 14
@joergi @torvalds Gentoo Linux, 2003.