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   Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 14:31:02 JST Scott Williams 🐧

   I just realized that as of this summer, I've now been a #Fedora #Linux user for 20 years.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 14:31:01 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     @vwbusguy Nice. When I first started at the FSF we used a bastardized version of Fedora Core 2 or 3 I think for quite a while before finally getting something else Debian based but I ran Fedora on my ThinkPad for around 2 years from 2009-2011 before switching to Ubuntu until 2021. I really liked how Red Hat 9 looked with the Bluecurve thing but I understand people working on it didn’t like that.

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     Fedora Project (F43 is OUT) (fedora@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 11:23:28 JST Fedora Project (F43 is OUT)

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     • Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

     @vwbusguy @brouhaha @mattl based fedora user and respecter of other Linux distros 😎

     ty for using Fedora for so long!

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 11:23:29 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

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     • Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

     @vwbusguy @mattl
     My first Linux distribution was Yggdrasil. When that went away, I tried Debian, but back then the Debian install process was like playing 20 questions, except that it was a lot more questions, many of which totally stumped me, despite my having been a Unix user and programmer since 1984. (Clearly Debian fixed that at some later date.) Red Hat Linux was easy to install, which continued with Fedora.

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     Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 11:23:29 JST Scott Williams 🐧

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     • Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

     @brouhaha @mattl

     Fun personal fact: First time I tried to install Linux, I downloaded and burned Fedora *source* isos which didn't work (5 discs, IIRC). I then successfully downloaded and installed DEBIAN (only 1 disc), but got a command line prompt. After testing every DOS/NT command I knew, I never got a GUI, so I went back and burned the proper Fedora Core installer (another 5 discs).

     In an alternative reality, I would have been a Debian loyalist.

     #Linux #Fedora #Debian

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     Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 11:23:29 JST Scott Williams 🐧

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     • Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

     @brouhaha @mattl

     To be clear, I still respect Debian to this day. They have some truly incredible community members. Most of my personal raspberry pi stuff still runs some manner of Debian.

     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) repeated this.
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     Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 11:23:30 JST Scott Williams 🐧

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     • Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

     @mattl Nice! Fedora Core 4 was where I truly started my Linux journey. I remember literally staying up all night until the dawn getting ndiswrapper setup so wifi could work.

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 11:23:30 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

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     • Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

     @vwbusguy @mattl
     I was worried when Red Hat announced that their non-enterprise distribution was going to become the community-driven Fedora, but it's worked out amazingly well.
     If I didn't use Fedora, I'd probably use Debian.