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What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by Crafted_104@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

DOS - Win3.1 - Win95/98 - BeOS - Red Hat Linux - WinXP - Mac OS X - WinVista/7/8 - MacOS X - Win10 - Debian Linux (and staying with it).

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

My first Linux distro was Ubuntu 5.04 that I got from a free magazine cd from my university.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 7 months ago

First operating system was probably either Windows 98 or Windows 2000. First Linux operating system was Ubuntu 10.10.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The first one I remember using was good old Windows 98.

[–] ItzzMe@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

The first OS I recall using is Windows 7 (yes I’m young), and for Linux, I switched from Windows 11 to Linux Mint, which is what I use in the present day.

[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Amiga back when you booted off floppies.

Then I guess ms-dos for pc.

For Linux I got a box set for redhat from compusa in 99 and learned from there.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

First OS was DOS (I think) on an Apple IIE at school. I think there were a few Commodore 64’s there as well. A couple years later we got our first home computer running Windows 95. Good times playing Doom, Jane’s Apache, an MS Flight Simulator.

My first personal computer was running Windows XP and I switched to Ubuntu sometime in 2004. Ran Ubuntu for the most part till a few months ago when I switched my desktop and laptop to NixOS.

Started self hosting services in 2012 and started with Ubuntu as base OS. Now though most of my servers are Proxmox with the VMs usually running Ubuntu LTS, though NixOS is starting to creep in there as well.

[–] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago

mint->chromeOs->kali->windows->arch->openbsd->arch->nix

[–] Avenging5@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

Red Hat 7

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