• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I’ve had a Linux desktop since 2003, over 20 years now. 20 years of facepalm after facepalm every time I saw people get fucked by a windows machine.

    Go Linux!

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      9 months ago

      Hey, I started in 2003 too! What was your first distro? Mine was mandrake, from the cd on the cover of a magazine.

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        9 months ago

        My first linux was in '98 and it was redhat 5 .2. I remember buying it from a computer shop I used to frequent as a teenager back then. i think it came on 3 cds or something like that.

        The amount of time I spent compiling kernels, building x server and getting confs to work is priceless.

        Ah,the good hard as fuck old days of Linux.

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        8 months ago

        I started with red hat with KDE, which then became fedora, I believe. Then switched to Ubuntu with KDE which then split to Kubuntu. Then tried mint for a while, then back to Kubuntu which I still use.

        Now I’m actually considering a different distro, because systemd and snap are pissing me the f off, badly. Ubuntu keeps pushing it, so I’m out. Only, now I need to find basically Ubuntu without system d and snap