I stopped distro hopping when Linux Mint came out. Audio and other media technology just worked out of the box. No stupid defaults like 6pt fonts and the calendar starts on Monday. The default apps were apps that I would use instead of 12 different text editors.
I thought it was older, to be honest. Thought a friend in Uni was running it, but I left uni (and the country) back in 2004. Were there betas in circulation in say 2002-2003?
💚 Well technically #LinuxMint wasn’t my first Linux distro (that honor belongs to Yellow Dog Linux), but it was the first the convinced me Linux could become my daily driver.
The first Linux distros that I used at work were Red Hat and SuSE in the late 90s & early 2000s. It was just running shell scripts on the command line, and were not the main systems that I used. At home, my first was Ubuntu 7.04 which did not work well on the laptop I had, and then Xubuntu 8.04 which was my real introduction to Linux and I used occasionally for about 2 years.
While it wasn't my first, it was the one I picked after I tried a few. I remember Slax 5 Live (KillBill Edition) was my first contact with linux, and Ubuntu was the first one I installed.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •My first #Linux distro was RedHat 2 or 3 in the late '90s.
My next one will probably be #LinuxMint
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I stopped distro hopping when Linux Mint came out. Audio and other media technology just worked out of the box. No stupid defaults like 6pt fonts and the calendar starts on Monday. The default apps were apps that I would use instead of 12 different text editors.
Happy Birthday Linux Mint!
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I remember Slax 5 Live (KillBill Edition) was my first contact with linux, and Ubuntu was the first one I installed.