What was the first Linux Distro you ever used?

Pirate · 05-06-2016, 10:01 PM

What was the first Linux distro you ever decided too experiment with. Not heard about but you actually went and tried it out.

Mine was Ubuntu about 5 years ago.

Skullmeat · 05-06-2016, 10:23 PM

Same here, Ubuntu, before that did all that unity garbage. Now my choice is Debian.

BurritoBeans · 05-06-2016, 11:05 PM

I started off on Raspbian in 2012 (Yeah it's just Debian but whatever) since the Raspberry Pi 1A was the first time I ever saw Linux in my life. I remember being really confused and not knowing how to do anything, but it looked cool and using the terminal/command line/whatever it's called was something I never really did before then so I ended up learning the basics with it.

sleaze · 05-06-2016, 11:15 PM

I feel like about 80% of us are going to say Ubuntu.
Also, Ubuntu.

Chris36202 · 05-07-2016, 01:44 AM

My first was Ubuntu, Now I'm using a Linux mint Xfce

zorrophreak · 05-07-2016, 02:35 AM

My first used distro was probably Yellow Dog Linux (I think was the name) and I was running it on one of those clear oddly shaped plastic Macs my dad found at work. Next first distro that I knew what I was actually doing was Ubuntu.

insidious · 05-07-2016, 09:29 AM

I was a hipster back in the day, and Ubuntu was way too mainstream for me

So I went with Linux Mint. Still mainstream, but I felt better about myself

the days....

I ended up somehow breaking the entire GUI because I didn't know how to linux

Pirate · 05-07-2016, 12:20 PM

(05-07-2016, 09:33 AM)Ayumi Wrote: I'm pretty sure I started on was either Ubuntu or Arch Linux.

Too be honest arch is probably the best too start on

insidious · 05-07-2016, 09:13 PM

(05-07-2016, 12:20 PM)Pirate Wrote: Too be honest arch is probably the best too start on

I disagree.

Arch is a great distro, don't get me wrong. But for someone totally new to the linux world, it's probably best to get used the the command line and all of it's quirks before moving on to Arch. Arch, I feel, is too easy to break/not maintain correctly that it might be overwhelming for a user new to linux.

In that respect, if someone really wants to start with Arch, I'd recommend them Manjaro. It's basically arch but simpler, and better for someone to get used to the Linux Environment before moving on to Arch itself.

Although if you already have Linux experience and would feel comfortable with Arch, by all means go for it.

But if you're coming straight from Windows with little/no previous linux experience, it's probably better not to get ahead of yourself

Pirate · 05-07-2016, 09:24 PM

(05-07-2016, 09:13 PM)insidious15 Wrote: I disagree.

Arch is a great distro, don't get me wrong. But for someone totally new to the linux world, it's probably best to get used the the command line and all of it's quirks before moving on to Arch. Arch, I feel, is too easy to break/not maintain correctly that it might be overwhelming for a user new to linux.

In that respect, if someone really wants to start with Arch, I'd recommend them Manjaro. It's basically arch but simpler, and better for someone to get used to the Linux Environment before moving on to Arch itself.

Although if you already have Linux experience and would feel comfortable with Arch, by all means go for it.

But if you're coming straight from Windows with little/no previous linux experience, it's probably better not to get ahead of yourself

That actually makes sense.
I didn't use arch until 2 years after I started using linux