• flubba86@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hey, I started in 2003 too! What was your first distro? Mine was mandrake, from the cd on the cover of a magazine.

    • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      My first linux was in '98 and it was redhat 5 .2. I remember buying it from a computer shop I used to frequent as a teenager back then. i think it came on 3 cds or something like that.

      The amount of time I spent compiling kernels, building x server and getting confs to work is priceless.

      Ah,the good hard as fuck old days of Linux.

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      3 months ago

      I started with red hat with KDE, which then became fedora, I believe. Then switched to Ubuntu with KDE which then split to Kubuntu. Then tried mint for a while, then back to Kubuntu which I still use.

      Now I’m actually considering a different distro, because systemd and snap are pissing me the f off, badly. Ubuntu keeps pushing it, so I’m out. Only, now I need to find basically Ubuntu without system d and snap