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  1. 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

  2. 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 (from 2006!) stuck on Snow Leopard hidden at the back of the cupboard I thought I’d give a go, purely for the hell of it. Since it’s my first go and an old machine I thought made sense. Who says you can’t teach an eh?

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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 :pi_pi_piri_piri_pi:

  6. 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 :pi_pi_piri_piri_pi:

  7. 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.

  8. 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)

  9. 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)

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. #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.

  16. #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.

  17. #MyFirstDistro was Jolicloud, an Ubuntu derivative for netbooks, which went on my trusty eeePC. From there, Ubuntu Netbook, and then, there was no turning back.

  18. #MyFirstDistro was Mandriva in 2009. I remember it was cute. Still think this skin for Kopete is the best I've ever had in any messenger ☺️

  19. #MyFirstDistro was Mandriva in 2009. I remember it was cute. Still think this skin for Kopete is the best I've ever had in any messenger ☺️

  20. @marado #myfirstdistro also was #MiniLinux. Not many people know that distro but since I didn't have much disk space and my PC was shared with my brother, it was my only.

  21. @marado #myfirstdistro also was #MiniLinux. Not many people know that distro but since I didn't have much disk space and my PC was shared with my brother, it was my only.

  22. @marado #myfirstdistro also was #MiniLinux. Not many people know that distro but since I didn't have much disk space and my PC was shared with my brother, it was my only.

  23. @marado #myfirstdistro also was #MiniLinux. Not many people know that distro but since I didn't have much disk space and my PC was shared with my brother, it was my only.

  24. @marado #myfirstdistro also was #MiniLinux. Not many people know that distro but since I didn't have much disk space and my PC was shared with my brother, it was my only.

  25. #myfirstdistro was #Slackware in 97ish. I was going to school for CS, and even thought I bought a C compiler for my Amiga, it was too different to use for school assignments. A classmate introduced me to the idea of trying #Linux . I picked up Slackware because it sounded neat. It took me 3-4 days to get #Xwindow working on a Compaq laptop, but I got it working, and that was the start of my long journey with Linux. Slackware teaches you a lot about how Linux works.

  26. #myfirstdistro was #Slackware in 97ish. I was going to school for CS, and even thought I bought a C compiler for my Amiga, it was too different to use for school assignments. A classmate introduced me to the idea of trying #Linux . I picked up Slackware because it sounded neat. It took me 3-4 days to get #Xwindow working on a Compaq laptop, but I got it working, and that was the start of my long journey with Linux. Slackware teaches you a lot about how Linux works.

  27. #myfirstdistro was #Slackware, almost thirty years ago.

    It was installed using a null-modem cable and needed a boot floppy disk to start.

    The computer was a small laptop with monochrome display, 2 MB RAM and 50 MB hard disk.

    I still have the boot & root floppy disks somewhere.

  28. was Red Hat Linux circa version 6.1 in the late 90's early 2000's and was an overall fun/great experience although there was a bit of fighting with Windows 98 on the boot sector of my Compaq to run both in a dual boot.

    linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjo

  29. #MyFirstDistro was Red Hat Linux circa version 6.1 in the late 90's early 2000's and was an overall fun/great experience although there was a bit of fighting with Windows 98 on the boot sector of my Compaq to run both in a dual boot.

    linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjo

  30. #myfirstdistro was #MiniLinux. Later, a better machine got #RedHat 5.0. From 5.2 I jumped to #Mandrake, and a change of hardware led me to @debian , the distro that still has my heart.

  31. #myfirstdistro was #MiniLinux. Later, a better machine got #RedHat 5.0. From 5.2 I jumped to #Mandrake, and a change of hardware led me to @debian , the distro that still has my heart.

  32. #myfirstdistro was #MiniLinux. Later, a better machine got #RedHat 5.0. From 5.2 I jumped to #Mandrake, and a change of hardware led me to @debian , the distro that still has my heart.

  33. #myfirstdistro was #MiniLinux. Later, a better machine got #RedHat 5.0. From 5.2 I jumped to #Mandrake, and a change of hardware led me to @debian , the distro that still has my heart.

  34. #myfirstdistro was #MiniLinux. Later, a better machine got #RedHat 5.0. From 5.2 I jumped to #Mandrake, and a change of hardware led me to @debian , the distro that still has my heart.

  35. The amount of Slackwares that served as for many people is actually kind of crazy to me. I haven't seen Debian or Ubuntu as much—still there though. Maybe it's skewed but it also reflects helps age the people who use Mastodon and have an interest in Linux I guess :blobcatderpy:

  36. The amount of Slackwares that served as #MyFirstDistro for many people is actually kind of crazy to me. I haven't seen Debian or Ubuntu as much—still there though. Maybe it's skewed but it also reflects helps age the people who use Mastodon and have an interest in Linux I guess :blobcatderpy:

  37. Really interesting seeing all the diversity of responses on the #MyFirstDistro hashtag.

    Well for me, it was Slackware 3 (can't remember the specific minor version release). Was fascinating to tinker with, having previously only used DOS and Windows, and later I discovered Live CDs and realised I could try dozens of different distros without ever having to commit to installing anything.

  38. #MyFirstDistro was Slackware 3.0 in around 1995. I remember it well, it was at the time I was working at Deutsche Telekom in Euskirchen, steeped in mainframe tech (on SAP R/2 and IBM MVS/ESA).

    A pile of floppy disks (well, the 3.5" ones by then), the excitement of a real OS on my own home brew computer, and the realisation of all the #UNIX like theory I'd learned by reading the big Coherent book a year or two previously in readiness for #SAP R/3 implementations.

  39. #MyFirstDistro was Slackware 3.0 in around 1995. I remember it well, it was at the time I was working at Deutsche Telekom in Euskirchen, steeped in mainframe tech (on SAP R/2 and IBM MVS/ESA).

    A pile of floppy disks (well, the 3.5" ones by then), the excitement of a real OS on my own home brew computer, and the realisation of all the #UNIX like theory I'd learned by reading the big Coherent book a year or two previously in readiness for #SAP R/3 implementations.