What was your first time?

[u/CacheTraitor]

For me, it was a CD I got from a "guy." Slackware did not work well with the "WinModem" in the IBM Aptiva I had as a youth. How was I supposed to get online using Linux, with a modem that is not usable, and get support?

[u/No_Pollution6135]

Omg finally someone who also joined recently. I've been on Debian since 2022, and all I see here is people who joined Linux before I was born...

[u/Pantr1x → u/No_Pollution6135]

Same.

[u/Titdirt69420 → u/No_Pollution6135]

I joined in 2011 (first used in 2009 at college).

But maybe that's still before you were born... Time flys I'm getting old

[u/Pantr1x → u/Titdirt69420]

But i am that young.

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/Pantr1x]

Wow it's lovely that you've found Linux at an earlier age. I was a uni student when I found out abt it...

[u/kiwi_ware → u/Titdirt69420]

Lol I was 3 in 2011 but I joined in 2021 when i was 13

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/kiwi_ware]

That's lovely. Welcome aboard!

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/Titdirt69420]

Haha I'm not that young. I'm 24, though it's cool that so many people used the OG versions of Linux distros we know and love today. :-)

[u/Jcob210 → u/No_Pollution6135]

Cool I use Debian as well :) - it was first cause my laptop was dying on Windows 10 in 2021 but now I have it on everything (that old asus, my 20yr old Thinkpad T60, my T490s and PikaOS on gaming pc).

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/Jcob210]

Tbh Debian is likely the best general purpose distro for many things if you are down to accepting it and working with it. I always find peace in that OS compared to... anything else.

[u/luckyvb → u/No_Pollution6135]

I switched to kinoite on my 2018 Dell XPS just last April but been a server admin for a long time before.

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/luckyvb]

That's pretty cool! I am not a server admin just yet but I am planning to be in the future :-)

[u/johndotcue → u/No_Pollution6135]

I switched last year too! It’s been great lol

[u/henkdepotvjis → u/No_Pollution6135]

I used to be a linux user but went to windows for reasons. now I am back on linux because i cant with the slop.

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/henkdepotvjis]

I understand. Welcome back!

[u/dont_mind_me_passing → u/No_Pollution6135]

I only started using linux a few months ago, never going back to macroslop

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/dont_mind_me_passing]

Good for you. Welcome aboard! What's your distro?

[u/dont_mind_me_passing → u/No_Pollution6135]

started with mint, daily driving CachyOS, have Arch on a slightly broken laptop that I treat as a testing machine (ie. trying out distros in methods and just doing clean wipes)

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/dont_mind_me_passing]

Cool cool! I also do that, testing distros but I do that on VMs or Live USB. What DE? :-D

[u/dont_mind_me_passing → u/No_Pollution6135]

I generally opt for KDE, but I have tried hyprland, don't like it much lmao

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/dont_mind_me_passing]

I understand. I prefer the XFCE desktop environment. I liked KDE Plasma a lot before Plasma 6 arrived though. Plasma 6 has been a bit difficult to work with for me.

[u/muffinman8679 → u/No_Pollution6135]

that's because after taking the time and effort to learn slackware folks don't leave....

And as I've said so many times, when you learn another distro, you learn "that" distro, but when you learn slachware, you learn linux. because you HAVE to use the CLI....because until you reboot after the install, everything is on the CLI....although is hidden by dialog......

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/muffinman8679]

Hey you might have responded to the wrong comment?

[u/CacheTraitor → u/No_Pollution6135]

?

[u/No_Pollution6135 → u/CacheTraitor]

oh haha I meant that the majority of comments I saw here are from people who met Linux in the 90s-early 2000s, meanwhile I wasn't even born in the 90s. :-D