D - to the E - to the ma' fuckin' BIAN
Puppy Linux, baby cuz I got that dawg in me!
First? Mandrake.
Now? Debian.
Ubuntu actually. I hated Ubuntu for a long time, until there was a game which only ran on Ubuntu. And now, after installing it, I'm actually pretty impressed and like it a lot. Yaru is a very good-looking theme, and the customizations Ubuntu made to stock GNOME are actually pretty logical (like adding windows buttons). It has among the best documentation and package support in the whole Linux universe. I'm a guy who likes to tinker, but for whom it is more important that the PC runs well, and I haven't encountered a single problem with Ubuntu yet - no kernel panic, no weird Bluetooth stuff, no apps which don't run for some reason,...
Everything just works. And that makes me happy. So Ubuntu it is.
Recently switched to NixOS.
Debian 12
GNU Guix where even geeks are G
Kubuntu, because I did the "hard"-distro-to-show-off thing with Gentoo 20 years ago and can't be bothered anymore.
Debian. Always have, always will
Fedora Kinoite The Future Is Now, Old Man😎
Um...
Manjaro (Stable) with Plasma 6 (and broken Oxygen icons).
I plan to merge those icons with GNOME icons... which are also partial, but I am too lazy. I like their early 2010s 3D look, but currently nearly half my icons are just missing.
I should be able to just rsync them together I hope and name it something else. Then also rsync the default Breeze icons as a last resort. I should be able to do that with
--ignore-existingI think.My first distro was Slackware 4. Now that I'm old and don't got time for that, I'm running Linux mint on my main PC, 2 raspberry pi OS, and Ubuntu LTS for a Minecraft server.
I'm far from OG, unless you count my dad's SUSE that I "used" as a child for a while. I fondly remember SuperTux. But I didn't really interact with the system much beyond starting games or a browser.
Later (about six years ago, I think) I started dual-booting Ubuntu as a side piece for productive stuff while gaming on Windows. Gradually tried gaming on Linux too, then made the jump to Linux (Ubuntu) exclusive late 2021.
Since a recent PC upgrade, I've used an additional disk to try Nobara and am happy with it so far. I've now got a spare disk and more time to try new distros, so I plan to explore the distroverse some more, but all in all I'd consider myself more of a newcomer or at best a resident than an OG.
Red Hat 4, father say me down on one of his Frankenstein computers built out of his trash heap in our basement and told me to have fun. I found tux racing konquest and played the shit out of them
Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.
Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times... A boot diskette and a root diskette.
Because no one mentioned it here: tuxedoOS! Ubuntu based, so its stable, with nice and tested KDE packages
Redhat 5.1. I had no idea what I was doing.
Puppy Linux 4.20 in a pentium 3 laptop.
Current distro of choice is just bunsenlabs.
Debian Busta!
Historically, Debian.
Right now, openSUSE.
Mint + xfce
Garuda
Im pretty glad I got to hear him speak in person.
Time to shoot the newbie. First used Ubuntu 20.04 in 2022. It was a necessity at the time on that shitty laptop and I had never used Linux before. Wouldn't go back to using that distro or laptop ever again since I have upgraded.
I use void because I liked the name
Usually Chad VoidLinux because it avoids the Unix-philosphy ignoring piece of garbage systemD but now I'm trying NixOS
Wubuntu
Debian 2.2 "Potato" on a stack of floppies. If one was corrupted, you had to reimage it, and hope the download was good or you'd be sitting and waiting for a while.
Knoppix in like 2006! The first one I installed was Fedora Core 4 though, my mom got disks for it and rhel in her school textbooks.
Now I use Arch on most things.
OpenSUSE Aeon
#!++ just to be too cool for school
Started on the 'buntu in 2005 or 2006. Distro hopped for a decade until I found Solus. That had some dark times a few years ago but seems to be back now but I moved to Debian anyway. Feels right.
First boot was MKLinux. Before there were books about Linux in book stores. I had no idea how to login.
Kubuntu
Debian :)
I'm using Arch Linux as my daily driver, my previous distro was Void for quite a while. After Void I tried out Fedora but I hated . Right now I'm testing Guix on a virtual machine too
Started out with mint back in the codec days. Now use Aurora at work , Bazzite at Home
Fedora on lappy 486, Nobara dual boot on compy 386.
Might pick something else for compy though. Don't really game on it with Linux since my games are Windoze only (iRacing)
Is that Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant?
First: SUSE 9.1.
Current: Arch
Mabox.
Debian 2.x (don't remember exactly) was my first attempt. But I don't actually count that because after annoying driver troubles (networking and mouse) and having to recompile the kernel multiple times I unfortunately lost interest.
Tried again with Debian 8 on my laptop and stuck with it until I moved 100% Linux just a couple of years ago thanks to Valve/Proton.
Qubes OS.
Flaked NixOS unstable
first distro was Linux Mint as far as I remember, but the first distro after I actually learned why linux is good was ZorinOS
I started with some UMSDOS-based "full X11 desktop in 5 floppies" distro on a 486, then went through Slackware, RedHat 5 with glibc breakage, actually bought a SuSE boxed set in the 7.x era, mostly stuck with Slackware unril I realized I wanted stuff like Steam and perhaps some degree of dependency resolution is nice. Bounced off of Arch (the AUR is a terrible concept IMO) and ended up on Void, which gives me Slackware-like vibes, but a little more built for broadband instead of CD images. Been trying Debian Sid latrly, just because I put it on my new laptop and I figured I'd go consistent, but I'm not sure I'm sold. Everything works, but even for an "unstable", the packages are dated and I dislike systemd on principle.
Started with OpenSuse, then Mandrake, then looong time Debian, now back to OpenSuse TW
mxlinux, manjaro, and openmediavault
