>0 jazei @ 2023/07/21 11:16
Did you installed your linux by yourself? since first time? are you programmer for do installation? do you have superlative knowledge for do your installation by yourself? did you starting installing going to any PC-technician first? take any course before about installation?
>1 anonymous @ 2023/07/21 16:44
>>OP I burned a CD with Debian and attempted to install it when I was 8 or 9 :P Didn't succeed though
>2 ultrachip @ 2023/07/28 22:40
>>1 Oh geez that's going way back... I'm going to end up showing my age a little haha. If I remember right I think my very first distro was RedHat... I want to say 2 or 3? The CD came with a textbook that I checked out at the library. No, I wasn't any sort of professional back then - I was a younger teenager at the time. I tried to follow the textbook during install but if I remember right something about my computer didn't meet specifications and I wasn't able to work around it (I was work with an old beater laptop that some neighbor had given me - there was no way my mother would allow me to try and install a new OS on the family computer lol.)
>3 primenumber7 @ 2023/07/29 03:15
I tried to install Debian when I was 10ish years old. Unsurprisingly the wireless drivers didn't work. Thankfully my dad helped me to manually download them from Realtek's website and build them. I don't know how that experience didn't scare me away from using Linux lol. But tbh I really started daily driving a Linux box when I started university. Before that I only really cared that my computer could browse the web and play games :)
>4 sporiff @ 2023/07/29 23:54
>>OP I remember seeing Linux (I believe an old version of Red Hat) when my dad was doing his computing courses. I didn't get to play with Linux until I was much older, though. I was stuck out in the sticks, and all my family knew was Windows. My roommate in uni was a computer science student. He saw my gaming PC (newly purchased for the purposes of schoolwork *wink*) and suggested it'd be fun to install Linux on it. Rather than handing me something simple like Ubuntu, he gave me an Arch install disk and a link to the Wiki. I bricked the computer pretty quickly, but something about the experience fascinated me. Ever since then I've pretty much stuck to Linux on my machines (currently Alpine) because I like being able to take things apart myself and break/fix them. It's helped in my work even when I worked with Windows, because it teaches you to think about the system itself rather than just do what the Microsoft troubleshooting guides tell you.
>5 yourpalpyro @ 2023/07/31 11:31
when i was 8 or 9 i started to kinda use linux (ubuntu) and dual booting it with windows. usually i bricked my pc doing it. now, i'm running arch linux and only keeping windows for troubleshooting and burning arch to a usb. i like it
>6 xeno @ 2023/09/12 18:22
Slackware to a 386 tower around '95 or '96. Worked with Unix starting in '78 so it was cool having a system at home. Could connect dumb terminals to the serial ports as well to share the one computer. Still have an ADM terminal though I havent tried putting any electric to it for a couple decades.
>7 anonymous @ 2023/09/12 20:39
Loaded Ubuntu (Natty Narwhal if I remember correctly) to dual-boot on my windows laptop after using the live CD for a couple of weeks. About a year later, I made the jump to Debian (and linux only on my laptop) and never looked back. That was a little over a decade ago. I was no computer expert at the time, but have picked up a some knowledge through the typical "crap, the printer/wireless/external DVD doesn't work" experiences.
>8 maha @ 2023/09/17 16:58
Slackware on an i386 started me on the whole linux journey. Before that all I used was MS-DOS and Windows 3.11. Linux was mind-blowing compared to that and I never looked back after that. I remember that the 386 would take a whole day to compile a custom kernel lol. Slackware was a great distribution, not sure why it faded away. I don't think that the distributions that came after that were as simple and convenient as Slackware. I just installed FreeBSD a week back, and it now looks like that simple system I've been missing for so many years. Eager to increase my FreeBSD usage over time.
>9 ceayo @ 2023/09/25 18:36
I use gentoo...
>10 anonymous @ 2023/09/30 12:17
BSD 4 lyfe
>11 mieum @ 2023/10/05 01:40
>>OP I think my first time trying linux was by burning ubuntu onto a cd in 2005 or 2006. Then I got in the habit of "rescuing" old PCs by putting lightweight distros on them. But I never got up to anything too technical with linux until maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Installing Arch for the first time was the gateway drug haha