What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes.
Currently on Fedora GNOME now but what about you? What made you choose your first distro diving into the world of Linux?
I wanna hear your thoughts!
Mint of course, then Manjaro and MXLinux. The weird stuff people recommend. Then Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Fedora KDE and now various Fedora Atomic variants.
- mint crashed randomly
- manjaro is very shady but was awesome, convinced me of KDE
- MXLinux was great but horribly outdated. Will never use a “stable” distro as desktop. Nextcloud was incompatible so I needed to switch
- Kubuntu crashed and many Ubuntu .deb apps where horrible, Flatpaks where awesome
- KDE Neon was an unstable mess and likely still is
- Fedora KDE was nice but also had KDE blackscreens
- Fedora Kinoite also gave me issues but either they are hardware related, or upstream KDE issues, or upstream Kernel issues, etc.
debian in 2007. still using it alongside mint
Knoppix 3.2 Live CD 2003
The first I tried was Ubuntu 10.10 but for reasons I don’t remember anymore I‘ve decided to rather install Linux Mint 10.
Used Mint for quit a while, then I had my distrohopping phase before finally setteling on plain Debian a couple of years back.
My first non-family PC was a Acer netbook with Linpus [Lite] Linux. I was 12, so my first priority was trying to get Rollercoaster Tycoon to work. Eventually I realized how silly that prospect was and instead managed to install Windows XP via a bootable USB. I used XP for a while until Vista came out, and then I gave Linux Mint a try and really liked it. These days I’m using NixOS and Fedora.
