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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Your first distribution (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes.

Currently on Fedora GNOME now but what about you? What made you choose your first distro diving into the world of Linux?

I wanna hear your thoughts!

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu Studio 8.04, I believe. I was a broke high schooler looking for free recording software.

[–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 8 months ago

My real first time using Linux was with Pop!_OS in April last year.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Fedora Linux thanks to some random YouTube video. I liked it, slowly made it my daily-driver, and still use it today. It just works, often, at least.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

Linux Mint in late 2021. Now, in 2024, I am on NixOS.

[–] pol5xc@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

The first I used was some version of Red Hat Linux. The first I installed was Mandrake 10.1.

[–] Kristof12@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My first was Linux Mint as well because it was more simplistic and cinnamon is really simple to use, good extensions available and stable for the most part, sometimes happened memory leaks but fixed on version 5.8; currently using Debian RC

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I chose Pop!_OS as my first because I was worried about Nvidia drivers and everyone told me Pop was a safe bet. Stayed with it for about 3 weeks despite a lot of weird issues with audio drivers and just not liking a lot of the Ui even after customizing it heavily, before it completely shit itself one day and I couldn't even load a backup.

Went back to Windows for 2 months before trying EndeavourOS w/KDE and it's been my main for almost a year now.

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