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   Neil Brown (neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 22:20:14 JST Neil Brown

   What was the *first* #Linux distribution you installed / attempted to install?

   For me - a Debian user - it was gentoo, around 2003, which was a mistake.

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     Bruno Girin (brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 22:20:13 JST Bruno Girin

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     @neil I think it was Red Hat, around 2000 ish. First one that ran well out of the box was Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10, not sure which (on a ThinkPad T42 which as you know is awesome).

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 08:17:52 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     @neil Ubuntu, around 2010, to be followed by Fedora, Mint, Manjaro, Arch, Manjaro (again), Elementary (briefly), and now Pop!_OS. Shit: that's, like, a distro hop every 18 months...

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     Lars Wirzenius (liw@toot.liw.fi)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 15:45:07 JST Lars Wirzenius

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     @neil The first Linux installation on my computer was the first Linux installation, but I didn't do it myself.

     Later, the first installation I did myself was with the boot/root floppy that LInus used to make.

     After that, MCC, SLS, Slackware, and Debian. I'm still on Debian.

     https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/ has more of the story.

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