Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry

Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)

I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    It was no distro, it was kernel 0.99 and bunch of gnu utils on like 8 floppy disks, and 10 more floppies or so for X11. I was running it on a 486DX50 iirc.

  • blankmind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.

  • darkan15@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Ubuntu (can’t remember if it was 6 or 8) was the first distro that I used, my cousin and another family friend used it and I got interested and asked to have it installed on my home desktop.

    For years, every LTS release of Ubuntu I installed as dual boot to try and experiment for a few weeks and then uninstalled it, using Windows for everything.

    2 years ago, I decided that I wanted to try other distributions and to switch and use Linux as my daily driver, so I installed Manjaro on my laptop and I have been using it daily since.

  • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    A friend of mine gave me an official Ubuntu 4.10 CD and that was my first Linux distro that I have tried.

    I still have that CD.

  • Grumpybumblebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Linux 0.2, not.joking. a friend came with it to me, just downloaded from a newsgroup (I think) around 1992, on a floppy! We tested it on my PC, didn’t know what to do with it, and promptly removed it. A few years later we gave it another try, and the rest is history

  • Pixel of Life@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It’s all a blur because I was maybe like 6 or 7 at the time, but I’m fairly certain it was Red Hat. The original, not RHEL.

    I have vivid memories of playing a game that involved collecting gems and avoiding falling rocks in a maze, similar to Boulder Dash or Emerald Mine. I have no idea what it was, but I know it wasn’t Rocks’n’Diamonds because I played that a lot and the graphics were different.

  • sep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Redhat. When it came time to upgrade i dug myself into rpm hell so many times. I struggled, had to reinstall. Next redhat upgrade, same experience.
    I tried debian potato, and dist-upgraded to next stable with no issues. I was floored. Have been dist-upgrading ever since. And run a few hundreds of debian servers.

  • onizuka89@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Knoppix. Was recommended it by someone I chatted with at the time and that did not go well. This was not Knoppix’s fault though, but rather me not knowing what I got into. Things worked as one would expect, the applications that were included ran without issues, but the issue came when wanted to install software. At the time didn’t know anything about linux, so didn’t know how to use the terminal to install software, and when trying to install new ones using exe files that didn’t work for now obvious reasons. So threw that stuff out and went back to windows, and didn’t touch Linux again until Ubuntu Hardy Heron which went a lot better.