Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFOThinking back to my first experience with #Linux. For me, it was in 2005, I was 10 years old and the IT staffer at my school gave me Puppy Linux and Slax liveCDs to try. I booted them up and was immediately hooked.
What was your first distro?
Fabian Transchel
Joe Brockmeier@ftranschel @jmaris Slackware 96 in 1996.
I'd never even heard of Linux, but happened to stumble on the Slackware 4-CD-ROM set in a Hastings entertainment store while thumbing through the cheap games CD-ROMs.
I took it home and installed it on my Gateway P133; I had absolutely no idea what the heck I was doing. I emailed the support address because I couldn't get X to work -- Patrick (!) himself responded and provided instructions on installing an updated package with the right driver for my ATI (I think?) video chipset.
So I got X to work. And still had no idea what the heck I was doing... but now I had no idea with bonus graphics!
I fumbled and fumbled with Linux for a few years and finally kind of sort of figured out what I was doing.
Moved on to Mandrake, then SUSE, then Stormix -- which didn't last long -- and have used a lot of others, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint... along the way.