In What Year Did You Start Using Linux?

cesarbergara · 09-10-2021, 01:42 PM

Hi. I buy a magazine with SuSE 5.1 cd in 1998. In 1999 buy an official package of Red Hat 5.2 but manual was english (too difficult to me translate and understand). During 1999 try to install but can until 2000 when found a pocket book about SCO (in spanish) which explain realy good and simple what is Unix/Linux. Then In 2000 began to use Linux (SuSE/RedHat and Mandrake), and leave to use other OSs from 2001. Now i am using Debian.
Have birthday for all out there!

Michael Uplawski · 09-11-2021, 06:05 AM

1997 I could have walked to the S.u.S.E headquarters and ask my copy of their version 5.0, but had to be convinced, first. I bought it in a a bookshop (not in Fürth, but Nuremberg). They follwed me, later and moved their HQ to Nuremberg, too, right in the middle of my way to work... The new building was more representative and made me doubt instantaneously.

“In what year did you stop using Linux?”

1997, about a week after installing S.u.S.E 5.0.

Arny006 · 09-30-2021, 04:57 AM

My first distro was `Linux Ultimate Edition` with Gnome at end 2009,
as at End 2010 the update to 10.10 crashed, try Ubuntu for one year,
than mainly Kubuntu till end 2018, than Neon,
last year start to use Arch and abandon it for `Artix-Linux, Plasma, OpenRC`.
In between I try `Devuan, Plasma, OpenRC`.

revbish · 05-12-2022, 10:04 AM

dmad71 · 05-12-2022, 10:41 AM

2008-Ubuntu for a short time, then Mint for a while. I stayed with Xubuntu for a number of years, but have been using Lite for quite awhile. I have no desire to move to another, any time soon.

thomasmoore · 05-12-2022, 10:51 AM

Started using Slackware in 1998. Desktop hardware failure in 2020, switched to Ubuntu on a laptop. Will return to
Slackware as soon as I get off my **** and rebuild the desktop.

StrayBit · 05-12-2022, 11:07 AM

In 97 or 98, attempted to install Slackware 4.0 as it was supposed to be able to run in 8 megs. Unfortunately, it required more to install.
Eventually, found Vector 5.9 and stayed with it through 7.2 which was never officially released
Then I found Peppermint 10 and discarded all MS installations.
Bruce

biterr · 05-12-2022, 11:58 AM

Ya know there is and new users

Aerwyk · 05-12-2022, 02:09 PM

I don't remember the exact year. but my cpu was a 386 and the source was on those small floppies. By the way, I'm 84 and still active with linux.
It took all night to do a compile and then you weren't always sure it was
correct.

coegj · 05-12-2022, 02:23 PM

I believe it was 2011 the year I retired from 42 years on BNSF Railway. Yeah I know, there should be a song there.

juniorbrown · 05-12-2022, 03:08 PM

I discovered Linux in 2015. I was in high school as at that time and at age 14. Was the best thing that happened to me 😅. I felt like I was the best hacker in my state 😂.

datapioneer · 05-12-2022, 03:18 PM

1994-1995

Lucio Chiappetti · 05-12-2022, 03:24 PM

I guess my first Linux workstation was in 2004-2005, before I was on Dec Alpha (Tru64) and Decstation (Ultrix) since about 1994. The Institute was on Sun (SunOS then Solaris) maybe from 1990, and we moved to Linux Suse around 2000.

krjames · 05-12-2022, 04:29 PM

2000 Mandrake 7.1

rclark · 05-12-2022, 05:36 PM

I picked 1994ish.... Whenever Slackware was downloaded onto a stack of floppies over a modem. CDs came along and was a 'big' improvement!

At the time, a Unix like operating system called Coherent was also used for awhile on my PC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohere...ting_system%29

Don't recall much about them now...