Redhat 2.1, a cd stuck to a huge book
7.0.90 here, that one had kernel 2.4. Been a minute.
Ubuntu, before Unity came along
Knoppix STD
Klaus would be proud
Ubuntu, it was an on-off-relationship until I finally made it
Yggdrasil LGX, back in ‘93.
Damn, you got in on like the ground floor haha
Mandrake mid 1990s
I’ve still got my Mandrake 9.2 CDs somewhere that a friend burned for me. Didn’t dig the rebranding to Mandriva.
My people! Their screenshot gallery was the sole reason I got into Linux back when I was in the sixth grade. The skills I learned by using it as my daily driver got me a job at a web hosting company and started a very fulfilling career.
Fedora from 2015, to circumvent my school laptop’s OS with it installed on a USB stick.
Red hat on a disc from a for dummies book at the library.
Same here. Red Hat 5 from the Linux for Dummies book.
Slackware 3.5 because my friend thought it’d be funny and didn’t tell me fuck all about distros.
Helped me learn a lot though.
Could you hand me the X floppy?
Slackware.
Same. The year was 1997…
Open suse and mandrake
Linux Mint, until I made a mistake during a version upgrade and aptitude had a memory leak while trying to escape dependency hell and roll every package back. Then I replaced it with arch and am happy to be on a rolling release distro.
Caldera Open Linux 2.(?) back around 98/99, for long enough to download Slackware and Win98SE.
Ubuntu 8.10
I don’t like Ubuntu anymore but I loved it then
Pop!_OS… About 5 months ago. first time user just hard switched on my main.
But now 3 PCs are running it in the house.
Pop got me into Linux in July 2021 (i switched the same time as the steamdeck was announced) and I ran Pop for a good two and a half years. Great distro.
Now I’m on EndeavourOS, but it was Pop that helped me make the transition.
