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My first was linux mint, then elementary, i tried debian and then ubuntu too but now i'm on fedora it really makes it easier and a didnt get back to windows anymore either for office or gaming now days i can do all of that on my linux machine, the only thing i cant yet, is make work the repair and flashing smartphones tools of windows that market is really sticked to windows just like itunes except that these programs doesnt run on mac either, thats the only thing a cant do on linux althoght i can only flash simple smartphones roms on linux but for anything ealse i need windows at all i just dont miss it, i hope soon the big companies on the market realize that on linux they have a future too and take the linux desktop systems more seriously. Regards.
Ahem. The oldest, still maintained distribution, is Slackware.
Not the oldest, indeed. When i was searching for my first linux distro i read a few article and understood that debian is most flexible and user friendly. Important fact for me that the most linux servers running on Debian. I think if i will know debian well my job searching will be easier.
Maybe only Red Hat can be equal debian
My first was linux mint, then elementary, i tried debian and then ubuntu too but now i'm on fedora it really makes it easier and a didnt get back to windows anymore either for office or gaming now days i can do all of that on my linux machine, the only thing i cant yet, is make work the repair and flashing smartphones tools of windows that market is really sticked to windows just like itunes except that these programs doesnt run on mac either, thats the only thing a cant do on linux althoght i can only flash simple smartphones roms on linux but for anything ealse i need windows at all i just dont miss it, i hope soon the big companies on the market realize that on linux they have a future too and take the linux desktop systems more seriously. Regards.
Debian has admin tools for working with Android devices and can flash smartphone ( for example, remove google, geo apps etc) even better than windows.
Apologies, my mistake. I confused myself with when I first got a computer ... it came loaded with a floppy disk version of Windows.
It was Ubuntu version 6.06 that came in the magazine.
I'd totally forgotten, thanks.
Gael.
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Not the oldest, indeed. When i was searching for my first linux distro i read a few article and understood that debian is most flexible and user friendly. Important fact for me that the most linux servers running on Debian. I think if i will know debian well my job searching will be easier.
Maybe only Red Hat can be equal debian
In your personal opinion and you are entitled to your personal opinion.
I have thoughts of trying one of the simpler desktops--I know there are some, but I don't have their names at my finger tips. One reason I stuck with kde (well, I liked 3.x under Debian 5.0) was because of the macro capability--can't think of what they call it, but, in the end, I don't use it much, and, iiuc, there is now a generic replacement for it that I assume (I know) works with any desktop.
For the record, the "macro capability" I was thinking of is dbus, or the KDE predecessor of dbus, with a similar name (iirc) -- one letter followed by "bus".
Apologies, my mistake. I confused myself with when I first got a computer ... it came loaded with a floppy disk version of Windows.
It was Ubuntu version 6.06 that came in the magazine.
I'd totally forgotten, thanks.
Gael.
My first distro was Red Hat Linux 6.0 back in 1999, and then Mandrake, SuSe, Fedora, Mandriva, CentOS, SME Server, OpenSuSe, Debian, Knoppix, Ubuntu, LinuxMint and Red Hat Linux Enterprise.
All I can say for certain is that it was early 2000s.
I'm not really sure what the first distro was I tried but I can remember that I installed Ubuntu the first time around 2005-2006.
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