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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).

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What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux? (lemmy.cloudaf.site)

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I'll go first, I took my mom's college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to run my games on it, and man wine was not nearly as easy to use (or as good) as it is nowadays. So I switched back to windows until around 2015 or so when I spent the next few years trying to replace windows as much as I could. Once valve released proton, I switched fully and have t looked back, unless my still there windows partition tries to take over my computer when I restart it at least.

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[–] wtvr 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was 13 or 14. Must have been 1995 or 96. Learned about it from friends on IRC (any old dalnet nerds out there?)

Ruined my mom's computer multiple times leaning how to partition HDDs 😆

I only recently went back to windows bc I was doing some .net projects and found WSFL was more than adequate for my other projects. Still kind of feel dirty using windows shudder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds pretty close to me! spider.dal.net was my go-to server.

I installed Red Hat 5 circa 98-99 when we got a new computer - so I didn't have to worry about destroying the existing Windows installation!

[–] ogwillikers 2 points 1 year ago

I used dalnet around 2000 or so. Hung out in #speaker's_corner quite a bit.