What was your first distro? (piefed.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[-] BB_C@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Forgot to mention that I wasn't exactly young at the time. We just didn't have reliable broadband internet back then in my neck of the woods. So I had to download ISOs and save them in a USB thumb drive in a uni computer lab.

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