En casa teníamos un cibercafé y entre las experiencias de cada día estaba que la banda descargaba Ares a las computadoras, y por ende, las computadoras se llenaban de Virus. Cada fin de semana nos dedicábamos la noche de sábado para hacer limpiezas y pasar antivirus. Nunca funcionaba del todo bien.
Por lo tanto, y para cuidar sobre todo la computadora servidor, le pusimos linux y corrimos el programa del cibercafé con el prehistórico wine de 2009.
Funcionaba medianamente bien y a mí me encantaba ubuntu de esa época.
A friend made huge advertisement and in the end convinced me to inform myself. Tried out kali in a VM, felt like a hacker and then installed Ubuntu on my PC
Reading about Windows Recall and realizing it would eventually be crammed down my throat despite the backlash. Switched within the next few days and am kicking myself for not having done it a long time ago
during the '90s, I was trying various operating systems. Sadly, they were mostly Microsoft products, except for OS/2, which was "full IBM" when I tried it. In Italy, getting my hands on a BSD was hard while Linux distributions started arriving during those years. In 1998, I tried a Red Hat. In the following years, I tried other distributions. My current desktop has Kubuntu.
A random encounter with a free Ubuntu install CD around 2006 or so 😃. I've been on and off Linux for years (because of PC gaming mainly) but I went Linux-only about 4 years ago on many machines for both work and private use.
My private desktop and laptop are running Fedora 42 now, a solid and fun experience.
Around 2010, I was sick and tired of Windows and how slow my computer was. So I tried Zorin, distro hopped for a while and settled on Arch based distros with KDE. Right now I am using CachyOS with Hyprland WM.
After experiencing Windows 11 on my work pc, I decided to never install it on my home pc. I had already watched and read a bit of Linux installation guides two times prior. First when the Recall feature was announced and again when I discovered that Windows 10 would hit the end of support already within 2025. I still have some trouble with a few programs, games and features not working yet. But I'm not going back. Linux seems to hastily improve since Proton & Steam Deck launched.
I worked with various unixen, often in admin or admin-adjacent roles. So I always was a little scared when I was at a # prompt. I knew that the wrong command would find 6 or 7 angry people knocking on my office door.
Installed Slackware at home from a bunch of floppies in 1996. Ran through the instructions, it did its Thing, and there I was sitting at a # prompt. Suddenly realized I could do Anything I Wanted and worst case I'd have to reinstall. And I could do that. Epiphany.
puppy Linux back when it first came out was touted as a different kind of gaming setup so I threw one together for my young son to play with. Not long after that experience is when I found Kali and I've never looked back.
while my password pin has been the same the pin could not be recognized and the pin registry was corrupted. So I just didn't have access. I got fed up and got Ubuntu and have had zero problems that I haven't caused myself lol
I heard about it at high school, read about it in some.magazines and then my public library had a copy of SuSE 6.x (After all, the instruction manual was a full book... two books). this was already outdated at that time. But I had a CD burner and no internet, so SuSE Linux was perfect replacement for my pirated Windows 98 copy on my outdated computer. Everything you ever need on 6(?) CDs.
At work, while looking at IT systems. Started with Slackware 3.2. (other OS'es used were Windows 3.0, 3.1, Netware 3.11, OS/2 2.x etc.) Main protocol on LAN traffic was IPX. Used Linux as IP gateway.
Tired of Windows (and searching for cracks and S/N for every famous app I wanted to install) back in 2009, I found and installed Ubuntu 9.04 from a magazine. At this time, to me as a newbie, Linux was Ubuntu.
What surprised me at first was the existence of Free (and Open Source as I later found) Software.
Then I discovered distrowatch.com, I made an unsuccessful atempt to use Slackware in 2010 and after Fedora, Salix and Crunchbang (RIP) I got stuck with Slackware from 2015 to today.
Ooh I haven't walked down that memory lane in a minute. Mr. Reed, our programming teacher in high school, let us install Red Hat Linux on a spare workstation in the computer lab. This was probably my sophomore year, 1997/1998. I... cannot recall at all what hijinks we got up to on that computer. cc @isaaccase @darkfrog
haha, I just wanted to try something which would make me feel a first class citizen. My pc is a BIOS setup so Win 11 has abandoned me. So I am on Linux and I will love it even when I get a better machine capable to run Win 20 😆
I used Xenix a bit, so trying Linux from the very beginning was an obvious step. But for everyday use, it was almost a perfect storm...
Trumpet Winsock was a nightmare under Windows 3.11, and I really wanted to enjoy the Web via the Belgrade University academic network. Also, the first commercial ISP in Serbia started operating in February 1996, so I installed Slackware 3.0.
I switched to Debian in 2002 and have been using Ubuntu for desktop since version 5.04.
Started at university with programming Fortran on an - IBM VM/CMS. Then DEC Ultix. - With DEC OS/F and SUN Solaris the Internet age began.
At home - OS/2, NT3, Delix (a german Slack Flavour) all together on a 4GB U2-SCSI Disk. - S.u.S.E. from 4.x to 7.2. - Ubuntu since Warty Warthog, - soon switched to Xubuntu, till now - since early 90ies freeBSD, then PcBSD/TrueOS, DragonflyBSD, GhostBSD, - I loved FuryBSD as install media - NomadBSD as USB Live System - …
It was 2015-16 or so. I think it was a difficulty in activating Windows which did it. I said, "If I can't activate like I used to with WinXP, I'll teach myself how to get a free OS from Linux. So with trial and error, I installed Linux Mint. I've seldom went back to Windows.
It was in the 90s. I came across a floppy with Linux and I loved the "colorful dir". Not much later I got two processor Pentium mainboard and started using Linux as my primary operating system. Windows 95, most popular desktop OS at this time wasn't even capable of using multiple CPUs.
I think, according to the wallpaper, that it was in 2006 with fedora core 5 that I got for free on a CD in some magazine, I was tired of windows XP being slow and bloated so after using some lighter (cracked ) versions I wasn't aftraid of going deeper but as I didn't know much and didn't find anyone to help me I didn't find a way to get my keyboard into my layout, so I got back to XP for some time until Linux mint got out, then as it was so much better than XP I never looked back.
Around the turn of the century, a friend gave me a computer with Windows 98 on it and a floppy that would supposedly boot Linux (original RedHat 6, cli only).
Linux wouldn't boot, so I got a book called Running Linux from the local library and my friend gave me a Knoppix CD. With the aid of these, I got Linux up and running.
I was blown away by the existence of an OS that could be fixed so easily when it misbehaved. And I've never looked back.
Sai Bhargav
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •En casa teníamos un cibercafé y entre las experiencias de cada día estaba que la banda descargaba Ares a las computadoras, y por ende, las computadoras se llenaban de Virus.
Cada fin de semana nos dedicábamos la noche de sábado para hacer limpiezas y pasar antivirus. Nunca funcionaba del todo bien.
Por lo tanto, y para cuidar sobre todo la computadora servidor, le pusimos linux y corrimos el programa del cibercafé con el prehistórico wine de 2009.
Funcionaba medianamente bien y a mí me encantaba ubuntu de esa época.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I began my Linux journey with Lycoris Desktop/LX, based on Caldera, around 2001. Very nice distro back then for beginners like I was.
After that came Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog), and many others till I found stability, for now, in OpenSuse Tumbleweed.
A very intense, interesting and learning experience ☺️
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •A random encounter with a free Ubuntu install CD around 2006 or so 😃.
I've been on and off Linux for years (because of PC gaming mainly) but I went Linux-only about 4 years ago on many machines for both work and private use.
My private desktop and laptop are running Fedora 42 now, a solid and fun experience.
Back To Analog
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I still have some trouble with a few programs, games and features not working yet. But I'm not going back.
Linux seems to hastily improve since Proton & Steam Deck launched.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I worked with various unixen, often in admin or admin-adjacent roles. So I always was a little scared when I was at a # prompt. I knew that the wrong command would find 6 or 7 angry people knocking on my office door.
Installed Slackware at home from a bunch of floppies in 1996. Ran through the instructions, it did its Thing, and there I was sitting at a # prompt. Suddenly realized I could do Anything I Wanted and worst case I'd have to reinstall. And I could do that. Epiphany.
Evin
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •was always interested and finally last month decided to format fully to ubuntu 😀
also planning when buying a new desktop to have an ubuntu partition and use it more than windows
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Tired of Windows (and searching for cracks and S/N for every famous app I wanted to install) back in 2009, I found and installed Ubuntu 9.04 from a magazine. At this time, to me as a newbie, Linux was Ubuntu.
What surprised me at first was the existence of Free (and Open Source as I later found) Software.
Then I discovered distrowatch.com, I made an unsuccessful atempt to use Slackware in 2010 and after Fedora, Salix and Crunchbang (RIP) I got stuck with Slackware from 2015 to today.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I used Xenix a bit, so trying Linux from the very beginning was an obvious step. But for everyday use, it was almost a perfect storm...
Trumpet Winsock was a nightmare under Windows 3.11, and I really wanted to enjoy the Web via the Belgrade University academic network. Also, the first commercial ISP in Serbia started operating in February 1996, so I installed Slackware 3.0.
I switched to Debian in 2002 and have been using Ubuntu for desktop since version 5.04.
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- IBM VM/CMS. Then DEC Ultix.
- With DEC OS/F and SUN Solaris the Internet age began.
At home
- OS/2, NT3, Delix (a german Slack Flavour)
all together on a 4GB U2-SCSI Disk.
- S.u.S.E. from 4.x to 7.2.
- Ubuntu since Warty Warthog,
- soon switched to Xubuntu, till now
- since early 90ies freeBSD, then PcBSD/TrueOS, DragonflyBSD, GhostBSD,
- I loved FuryBSD as install media
- NomadBSD as USB Live System
- …
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Around the turn of the century, a friend gave me a computer with Windows 98 on it and a floppy that would supposedly boot Linux (original RedHat 6, cli only).
Linux wouldn't boot, so I got a book called Running Linux from the local library and my friend gave me a Knoppix CD. With the aid of these, I got Linux up and running.
I was blown away by the existence of an OS that could be fixed so easily when it misbehaved. And I've never looked back.