Ambivalence, is the one word describing my first week with Linux slightly more than 20 years ago 🥹 It was quite the humbling experience with the immense freedom to build and break everything, and the difference between the two was sometimes just a semicolon 😅 Thank you #Debian, #Redhat, and #Canonical for all the fun, the sleepless nights, and mostly for all the awesome work.
Mine was just this past year, and the word I'd pick is "boring"--which is great, the OS itself *should* be boring. It's the background. You should ideally be able to forget it's even there.
Frustrating. This was back in 2007 using what turned out to be a very buggy interim release distro on a laptop that was having its own problems. Things went better in 2008 when I used an LTS release from a different distro.
Mental meltdown, in 1998, after being unable to configure X on RedHat, I resorted to some obscure tool which converted Debian packages to RPM, and used it to try to reinstall X on RH from converted deb packages.
Needless to say, a Very Bad Idea.
Butchered my RH install, spent 2 days trying to recover that, and finally installed SUSE.
Almost 30 years and countless distributions later (incl. hardcore-ish stuff), I still lack the courage to install or manage RH(EL).
Journey I chose that word as #Linux really is a journey of making attempts to understand why everyone and their mother, who used Linux, preached it's praises. Just to get dunked on over and over depending on the year it is, just to get one step further than the last attempt. Over 20 years of hearing and using it was part of that journey. I absolutely hated it. Had to uses it in College and work. Got more comfortable with it, until I could feel comfortable removing Windows entirely.
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Also, I had windows on this machine. Where is it?
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Then I started calculating hsync and vsync to get X11 to run on my svga display.
It felt surprisingly like home after eight years with 4.2BSD and 4.3.
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Mental meltdown, in 1998, after being unable to configure X on RedHat, I resorted to some obscure tool which converted Debian packages to RPM, and used it to try to reinstall X on RH from converted deb packages.
Needless to say, a Very Bad Idea.
Butchered my RH install, spent 2 days trying to recover that, and finally installed SUSE.
Almost 30 years and countless distributions later (incl. hardcore-ish stuff), I still lack the courage to install or manage RH(EL).
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