What was your first distro? (piefed.world)

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Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 22 hours ago

Slackware was my first linux distro, but would Solaris or SunOS count?

[-] higgsboson@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No, but bonus credit. I went Vax VMS, DEC Alpha DUX, Slackware, slowaris (x86 Solaris), Redhat, then LFS, Gentoo, RHEL, Solaris 9, and then eventually a little of everything else.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Yea very similar progression, I ended on Debian (so far), and Bazzite for gaming.

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