• greencactus@lemmy.world
    161·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • imaging2162@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      My first try at linux was ubuntu 8 on a 2008 or 09 Lenovo idea pad. I left linux shortly after for windows based products for a little while for mostly pc gaming. After learning more about the current state of linux in 2022 i return to Ubuntu long term release and I’m very impressed with how well it works.

      I have been tinkering with different things like large language models and a few other tools which has caused me issues with graphics drivers recently but overall it works well every time

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • eric5949@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • xycu@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • I_like_cats@lemmy.one
    4·
    9 days ago

    Usually Chad VoidLinux because it avoids the Unix-philosphy ignoring piece of garbage systemD but now I’m trying NixOS

  • ellieskunkz@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 days ago

    Slackware back in '05 to '09 stopped for a whIle and i just got back Into it. Currently distro hopping the BSDs and fiddling with gentoo, and Guix, trying to set up A reproducible system that doesnt use systemd and offers good wine and vm support with an Openbsd firewall/router and nas setup.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      1·
      10 days ago

      Whoa, I used Slackware for basically that same time frame (IBM — not Lenovo — ThinkPad 600e, which was pretty ancient even at the time). Good stuff!

  • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 days ago

    first distro was Linux Mint as far as I remember, but the first distro after I actually learned why linux is good was ZorinOS

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    10 days ago

    First boot was MKLinux. Before there were books about Linux in book stores. I had no idea how to login.