MS-DOS 5.0

• Commodore 64 (kernal)
• Amiga OS
• MS-DOS 3.2, 5.0
• Windows 3.1
• Slackware Linux
• Windows NT 4
• RedHat Linux
• Windows XP
• Ubuntu Linux
• Windows 7
• Windows 10
• Rasbian
• PopOS

Roughly in order of appearance. Personal devices only. I used many more for work.

Apple ][ e: pictures of me playing point-and-click story games.

Ubuntu 4.10 “warty”

I’m probably on the younger side of Lemmy, my first OS was Windows 98, but the first one I truly remember using is XP.

When I really started getting into computers, our family PC was running Vista, and the first nerdy thing I remember doing was trying to “downgrade” that computer to XP. My parents were none too pleased when they saw that the PC wouldn’t boot, thinking I had bricked it. It took me about a week to getting XP running properly, and that feeling of satisfaction is what started my love for tinkering with computers (I’m definitely a noob compared to the average Lemmy user, though).

Afterwards, I fell into the Apple fanboy pipeline and begged my parents for a MacBook. I was a huge Mac nerd, even saving up money as a teen for an iMac, until I started wanting to game more on PC, especially with friends on Steam. I then started dual-booting, initially XP but then Windows 7, and eventually I realized I was never booting into my Mac partition. I played around very occasionally with dual-booting Linux as well, Ubuntu and then Linux Mint, but this was more for computer nerd clout than a genuine need or interest for libre software, also the command line scared me and I still played too many games to main a Linux distro.

I then built a PC for gaming, and ran Windows 7 on it until around 2 years ago when I got really into FOSS and switched to EndeavourOS which is what I’ve been happily using ever since. I’ve always enjoyed tinkering on computers, but with EndeavourOS I feel like I’m less battling with my OS and more with my lack of skill/knowledge, which is much more rewarding to surmount, and makes me feel like my system is truly mine.

I started with Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 on the VIC-20, if that counts as an operating system. Otherwise GeOS on the Commodore 64.

First Linux distro was slackware 3.0.

First OS was DOS. Then Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, then Debian when this happened.

VIC=20, Commodore 64, Vendex HeadStart, Zenith (forget the model), Tandy TL/2, then I had a 386SX/20 built, then I started building my own starting with a 486-DX4/100.

First dabbled with Linux when I bought a CD from Staples with “Linux95” on it. It was just Slackware. Then Red Hat 4.0 and Corel Linux.

my first os was windows 95, but my first linux distro must’ve been whatever version of ubuntu was current around 2007/2008.

First OS was MS-DOS on a Tandy. First Linux distro was Knoppix.

C16. Ugh I’m old.

Texas Instruments ROM Basic, then later PC-DOS (not MSDOS)

XP. I only got into Linux about 6 months ago.

First OS: Windows 3.1 running on top of MS-DOS 6.2

First Linux distro: Ubuntu (forgot the version, but it was circa 2018).

If I’d count an OS/Linux distro that I’ve used even if not in a machine I own, it’d be Linux Mint of circa 2006.

As a kid Amiga Workbench was my first desktop environment, and then later Win 3.11 in MS DOS.

I remember my dad toying with Linux but can’t remember which one (he did settle on SuSE though I recall). My first linux distros was Ubuntu.

Windows 3.11 and Kubuntu 6.06LTS (still have the CD!)