1993, Slackware

I'm a real newb, 2005 was the year Ubuntu 5.04 rolled out.

I started using Manjaro in 2019, I think...

I booted once in 2017 or so, but switched over to Redmond dual boots where Linux is preferred 95% of the time in 2020.

If I remember correctly I started "experimenting" with Linux in 2009. The first distro I installed and used was Ubuntu and later migrated to LinuxMint and then distro hopped for numerous years. I am now running Bodhi, PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint and MXLinux regularly.

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1993: got an ISDN card and a WiFi card to connect our house

WiFi in 1993 huh. I didnt even know it was invented by then.

WiFi was invented and first released for consumers in 1997 when a committee called 802.11 was created.

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1995.

My last version of WiNdOwS was version 3.1

I never went back.....

I distro-hopped until 2004, and I decided that, at that time, I started using Debian. Now that most distros use "systemd", I don't like it as much (I miss System V/sysV) and have been considering another distribution.

I was in Princeton during Mars 1985 , learning Unix . At the time , there was other participants from Europe (Belgien , Nederlands and Germany ) and guys from States . Was the BEGINNING ! I have studied at a Tower NCR with a lot of no-inteligent Terminal's connected . With the PC , at the time , Salk Lake City , developed Xenix . AT&T begans after 1960 . At 1969 Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie , created the first version of Unix . The great American Universities , began exploit and develop the System (ex. Berkeley) . From 1978 i was a Univac hardware technician until 1998 ! Congrats

oaliva:

As an aside....

*: In 1984, I was in the military.
*: In 1995, I was in Graduate school, and I got myself a PhD in Mathematics.
*: Now I am an "old-fart" and am self-unemployed, and loving it!

Thank you, and have a glorious day!

2003 - Mandrake 9.1 I believe - https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...35/#post285481

The year when I switched to Linux (from Windows) was 2015 bc I read somewhere Micro$hit was planning to kill Windows 7 which in turn meant no support for games, so I figured I'd better switch to Linux early in order to get used to it and when the time comes, I wouldn't miss Windows.
But my first attempt at Linux was with Ubuntu 10.10. It wasn't successful at all bc back then I was using an AMD video card which didn't have a very good support for linux. Without a video driver the maximum resolution I could use was 1024x768 (CRT monitor back then) and WITH a video driver the maximum resolution was 640x480 ��, so I said to myself "fck it, I'm done with that thing" and went back to Windows. A few years after that I tried Mint but it had a weird problem which nobody could solve (it was displaying my main hard drive as a "Picture CD"; go explain to the idiotic distro that there's no such a thing as 500GB CD �� ), so I spent a whole week in turning Google inside out to find the reason for that problem. It turned out the problem was Pix (one of its plugins, actually, bc an unknown "genius" had decided that if there was a directory named "Pictures", then the storage can't be anything else but a CD), so I uninstalled the damn thing and I was finally able to start using Linux like a normal human. 8 years later that idiotic plugin is still in Pix and still reads my main hard drive as a "Picture CD" but this time it's a 1TB CD. If only... ��

The first attempt at using linux was in the early "naughties" using Red Hat 8 and then Mandrake (9?). However, when I invariably ran into problems, the usual "help" was on usenet and those guys didn't suffer fools very well. And yes, I was/am a fool.

I then abandoned linux and finally installed win XP (coming from win 98) and stayed there until 2008. My BIL came over with a burnt DVD with ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on it and after installing it (on a self built computer with an Athlon XP 1800), I then updated until 10.04 when I bought a new Dell 1545. After running that for 10 weeks or so, as a dual-boot (it came with win7), I nuked the HDD and put 10.04 on it and the Dell only ran ubuntu from then on.

I have three ancient laptops, all running Linux Lite, two Toshiba Satellite's (2007, 2008) and my old Dell. I also repurposed a Dell Chromebox (bought new in 2015 that Google abandoned in 2019) and it is my HTPC/media streamer

Slackware on a Gateway 2000 tower!

If Unix also counts 1994, else 1996