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Your first distribution (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes.

Currently on Fedora GNOME now but what about you? What made you choose your first distro diving into the world of Linux?

I wanna hear your thoughts!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was slackware 2.0.

It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup. Also there were no CD burners nor USB sticks yet. So whatever your friend had on CD waa the option. I guess the only other possible option would've been red hat back in those days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup.

I would, I downloaded Slackware through dialup, sometime late 1994.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Then in 3 weeks you would have a usable system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Seriously, Slackware at that time was wonderfully well planned and optimized, the stack of floppies needed for a fully usable system was remarkably small and downloadable.