I started fairly recently (probably somewhere between nine and seven years ago; time isn’t my strong suit, cut me some slack) on Debian. Now I’m on Arch Linux.
Slackware in 93 or 94, on a 386DX40 with 4MiB ram and a 40MiB HDD. A friend and I split downloading the disk sets 1/2 disks a day on our limited ISP time.
When Netscape came out, I ran it on that machine. It took literally 30 minutes to start (with much swapping), but was actually usable thereafter.
I dabbled in Linux for a while (since 2009, college). I did some distro hopping for a while ( Ubuntu, opensuse, mint, Debian). I finally mained Linux after windows 8 came out, ugh.
I mained Manjaro and then switched over to Endeavour. I couldn’t be happier. My opinion of Linux keeps getting better and better, but that’s probably because I have to fix my parents computers once in a while. They run windows 10 now. I hate it. Ads in the start menu?! Kill me now.
Valve with Proton also helped a lot. Playing games on Linux is easy as pushing play. If I have any problems, I just wait for a glorious egg roll to drop.
I started dualbooting 12 years ago, never used linux. Started again dualbooting 9 years ago, never used linux. Purged windows 2-3 years ago
I’m on silverblue and I don’t care about the system anymore because I don’t interact with it. It auto updates and I’ve got a fedora distrobox. I’d probably do the same if I were on opensuse or arch, meaning nothing would change for me if I would distro hop.
Edit: I fancy with opensuse Aeon but I don’t really gain much. Maybe I’ll install it on my next machine
In university in 2000. Now I am a Linux DevOps Engineer.
Currently writing some python so we can get a report out of our shiny new harbor docker registry.
That job sounds awesome. You nerd out about Linux and get paid for it?
For sure! Most DevOps jobs are like that. Honestly, my company cannot hire competent Linux admins fast enough. If you have zero experience but a sweet portfolio you’ll probably get hired. The intern I just got up to speed has zero work experience at all.
Well, I’m still in Uni now, so internships sound like something that I should prioritize?
If I was still in uni I’d put all my time into software engineering and go straight to making software. DevOps is fun but you’ll make way more money being a software engineer. My code is shit compared to a legit developer.
[e] actually I think embedded linux systems are going to continue to become more and more the rage. Low power, super efficient. Think huge advancements in robots in a very short while when absolutely every sensor can run a ghz SOC a quarter the size of a fingernail.
Get, good, at, C.
I haven’t touched it in decades but I’m coming back to it so I can make Adruino/ESP32 projects.
My first Linux distro was Mandrake. I’m not exactly sure when it was, but FiveStar sounds about right, so 2003 or so. I’ve since used Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and possibly some others. I did use Windows 8.1 for a good few years, but came back to Linux when I saw where Windows was headed. Right now I’m on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which is pretty darn good, and thinking of maybe hopping on to OpenMandriva, though not out of any real necessity. I have a PinePhone and have used Mobian and PosmarketOS on it. There’s also my first generation Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
The way modern commercial OSs are developing, I’m extremely glad something like Linux exists. Libre software is the future.
Mid 90s at work as a project support technician in Sony Broadcast R&D in the UK. Slackware, then red hat mostly. Installed Linux boxes in various digital TV stations in London in 1999/2000, used to insert interactive games into the broadcast stream.
I was a sysadmin from 99 to about 2018, from then onwards I’m more DevOps. Done a bunch of stuff with CentOS too, including migrating 500k email accounts to our hosted solution. Other cool stuff included a VMware based development environment using Foreman + FreeIPA to auto provision dev VMs with all sorts of puppet code.
Now at home I run Fedora and work on macOS, writing Terraform and Python. And some nodejs too.
Been at it a long ass time now lol
Early 2000s, I was a young pc repair guy and Linux offered a free solution to “what to do with these computers people abandon”. Started out with Redhat when it was free but switched to Ubuntu when it came out. Since then I always ran Linux on a secondary computer or laptop because I needed windows to play games. Back in 2008 I ran Linux exclusively for a while because I couldn’t afford a windows license and I played some games using WINE. As of last year I have again switched to using Linux exclusively due to privacy concerns and Valve making Proton work for most games I play.
4 months now, Debian Gnome. Its on a laptop from work. Knowing what I want and how to secure things they gave me local admin rigths on Win11 to convert the device to dual boot. Slowly getting to know my way around.
I started in the mid to late 90s when my dad brought home old redhat CDs. I don’t really use Linux consistently unless you count my Android phone or my Steam Deck, but the last OS I used was Linux Mint on a Thinkpad W520 maybe
4-5 years ago. Started because my one machine won’t get security updates from Microsoft and my main machine isn’t eligible for the Windows 11 update.
Started on Ubuntu and then did some heavy distro hopping. I’ve ended up preferring only 2 distros; Debian and Arch. There’s plenty of others that I like but those are my top 2.
About in 2008-2009. I was about 15 years old. One of my teachers installed ubuntu on school computers. Remember playing around with wobbly windows and desktop cube and having a blast.
I didn’t use much linux at home though until college about 2013 when I put it on my laptops. Took until like 2018 to fully switch. I ditched the last windows VM with GPU passthrough when its boot drive died.
Startet using Linux in 1999. Then I did a lot of distro hopping:
- Redhat
- Suse Linux
- Gentoo
- Sabayon Linux
- Debian
- Kdenlive
- Arch
- Ubuntu Studio
- Fedora
- Fedora Silverblue
- since 2017 NixOS
NixOS feels very contemporary and will stay a while. It is very advanced and usable in many diverse environments. In the past I did learn a lot installing and maintaining Debian and Arch – which has a great community.
I started with RedHat 6.1, codenamed Cartman, on an i386. My god, the pain, the failed boots, the fail testing and source building by way of multi CD’s provided through magazines. It was great
Now, many years later, after many, many different distros, after several immutable distros, I’ve ended up with NixOS, because I still like getting punished by my software.
Suck it, nix users. You know it to be true.
I’ve ended up with NixOS, because I still like getting punished by my software.
Suck it, nix users. You know it to be true.
… true.
Half a year ago I tried it but I have destroyed the system so bad, that even live usb wouldn’t boot. Few months ago I have tried again, seems in time what was broken before got fixed by itself also I stuck with it this time and love using it.
live usb not booting is a seperate problem
it got fixed by itself soo don’t care anymore but thanks for the answer
Most likely… Unless the “destruction” was switching your MOBO between Legacy BIOS and UEFI, in which case you could break booting into both in one swoop ;D
I first installed Ubuntu on a laptop in 2016. I started using linux full-time in 2017 with Ubuntu MATE and I’m now on EndeavourOS after trying these:
- Ubuntu
- Lubuntu
- KDE Neon
- Antergos
- Manjaro
- Arch
I use Debian and Arch on home servers, and I want to install OpenSUSE Slowroll to replace my Arch server (it hasn’t broken yet)
As far as I’m concerned it’s still 2018 and the year of the linux desktop…
