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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I dunno, I picked RedHat 5.2 as a complete beginner along with fvwm95 and afterstep, and that worked out okay. Of course, that was 25 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

25 years ago the viability of options were slightly more prescriptive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Same. I remember getting interested in Linux in like 1997 or so, and it seemed like RedHat was preferred for newbies.

Of course, what were the alternatives then? It was basically Slackware (or Suse), Debian, and RedHat (or Caldera). There was no RHEL or Canonical or SElinux back then. It was a different time.

Hell one of the language packs for installing RedHat was “Redneck”. It was a gimmick to demonstrate localization options.