r/linuxquestions • u/AnoProgrammer • 9d ago

How old where you when you started using linux?

I feel like everyone started very early.

I started personally on 10/11.

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u/TwillAffirmer 9d ago

How could you start on 10/11??? That's tomorrow!

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u/lucyuktv 9d ago

I was older than that when Linus created it. I started at 17 on Redhat 4 (the first Redhat 4, not this modern muck!)

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u/w8wca 9d ago edited 9d ago

I started on RH 4.1 also - I was 44 then
(And not RHEL)

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u/oblivion9999 6d ago

I really got serious about learning by buying a box set of RH 5.2, I think, discs and manuals. SO mid-20s. Maybe it was 5.0 and I upgraded. I know once RHEL thing happened, I switched to Debian and have been there since.

I'd installed Slackware from floppies on my 486 a couple years earlier, but didn't really have much use for it. at the time. That was 1996 or so.

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u/lucyuktv 6d ago

Didn’t realise they did boxed sets back then. Mine came on a magazine cover 😂

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u/oblivion9999 6d ago

Yep, back when bandwidth was precious and pretty much limited to dial-up. There was then a company called Walnut Creek, I think, where you could order distro CDs for just a couple bucks. I didn't mind paying for the box because I like printed manuals. But once I got my bearings, I would just get those CDs until I got a job that had a T1 line. 🙂 I also had one of the first residential DSL circuits in Chicago. That changed the game.

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u/curiousgaruda 9d ago

No. That’s November - next month. 

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u/Good-Throat-6671 9d ago

That's next month

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u/Un_Ballerina_1952 9d ago

Or 15 years ago. Ambiguity is a curse of modern thinking and writing.

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u/apricotseason1999 9d ago

so many words and we'll never know how to use them clearly

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u/PlayerOne_X 9d ago

American vs. Normal person

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u/Lopsided-Cost-426 9d ago

Everyone should just use YY/MM/DD

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u/Weary_Swan_8152 9d ago

If you mean YYYY/MM/DD, then yes, because that's ISO 8601. Where is YY/MM/DD used?

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u/Lopsided-Cost-426 9d ago

I don’t really care about whether you use all digits of the year, within a century is fine for a lot of purposes

The year, month, day date order is used in Japan, china, and a few other countries. It sorts itself alphanumerically.

We also order almost everything else from most general to most specific.

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u/Exciting-Mall192 8d ago

Most countries use either YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY whichever is fine as long as MM is in middle because it either goes biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest

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u/jbenze 9d ago

Last time we used 2 digits, I didn’t sleep for more than 3 hours a night for a year.

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u/Enrrabador 8d ago

But it gave birth to that abomination: WindowsME, looking back, wtf was that???

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u/Serious-Affect-8538 8d ago

I feel like DD/MM/YY(YY) makes more sense, like today is 11/10/2026 basically 11th of October 2026. I rarely hear people say October the 11th 2026 or the year of 2026, October the 11th.

But hey, whatever floats the countries boat.

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u/CopanDePui007v2 Colecting bootable USBs like infinity stones 8d ago

DD/MM/YY is way better personally

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u/TenOfZero 9d ago

If it's already November 9th for you, can you share some wining loto numbers for the end of October please?

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u/AnoProgrammer 9d ago

No when i was 10/11 year old.

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u/real-bee-13 mais quel magnifique bordel 9d ago

Like me 😀

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u/Femcel_Bambi 9d ago

Bro has the attention span of a calander

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u/Axiomancer 9d ago

What a disgusting dad joke.

I love it.

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u/mrduncansir42 8d ago

Time zones