What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes.

Currently on Fedora GNOME now but what about you? What made you choose your first distro diving into the world of Linux?

I wanna hear your thoughts!

  • corsicanguppy
    3·
    9 months ago

    I worked on Caldera Open Linux. It was a tough merge, Caldera taking over our shop, but the work was good and valuable and we derived a lot of pride from solving tricky issues. Working with the company Caldera bought (on DrDos Lawsuit money) remains, decades later, my best working experience ever.

    It’s nice to see it was occasionally magical on the outside.

    • Bo7a
      1·
      9 months ago

      Whoa! thanks for sharing your experience. Your work was definitely appreciated. 25 years later, mainly due to that silly need to play pirated cartoons for the kiddos, and a CD rom I pulled out of the trash - I am a sysadmin who wears an architect title, and I have built some amazing systems. Maybe if Caldera hadn’t been what it was I wouldn’t have been interested enough to make it work, and to realize a love for unixlike systems. So yeah. Thanks :)