Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry
Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)
I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)
Gentoo circa 2002. Soooooo over my capabilities at the time
Ubuntu, either version 12.04 or 12.10 when I got my first computer, a Chromebook, in Christmas 2013 when I was 10. I hated how Chrome OS didn’t support anything so I found a way to put Ubuntu on it and messed around with Blender and Minecraft. Despite this early start, I proceeded to do nothing productive with it, broke it out of frustration, and now I’m 20 and struggling with Arch lmao
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Mint, because it’s what my dad put on my first laptop when I was like 10 or something. I remember playing minetest and FTL on it.
I installed linux mint on some really old laptop when i was a little kid but i wouldnt really consider that my first distro that i actually used on a dailybasis, that would be SteamOS on a Steam deck, it showed me how great linux could be and got me hooked on it.
Oh god it’s been so long (20+ years). I only remember that whatever distro I installed had that great game preinstalled in which Tux slides down a mountain. Ah… Nice memories of easier times.
I remember that game! For me it would’ve been RedHat, Gentoo or Knoppix.
Fedora from a cd around 2006
Red Hat Linux purchased at CompUSA c. 2001. I was only like 11 but I read PC Magazine and Wired; both were raving about Linux.
At the time my family only had dialup and I just couldn’t download it.
One thing I miss from that version was it’s weird blend of GNOME and KDE. The theming possibilities were endless and it was FAST on an old IBM ThinkPad designed for Windows 3.1 (in fairness Windows 2000 was pretty quick on that thing too).
