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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 (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?

  2. #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.

  3. @joel I got 6 off a CD that came with a magazine in 2000. Took me days to get X running on my hardware using my dads computer to dial up the internet to find mailing list threads to get it going.

    In the end my was what sent me back to Windows. I would try again in 2004 when my university lecturer handed out his customised core 2 based live CD that had all the utils we needed for the Unix admin class.