• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    5 months ago

    Windows 95 and Macintosh LC, elementary school computer lab stuff. My grandpa had a Windows 3.1 IBM PS/2. Those were all pretty old and practically obsolete computers when I used those, 98SE was out and ME was right around the corner.

    My very first Linux distribution experience was Mandrake Linux I believe version 9 or something like that. Didn’t last that long though, I revisited Linux later with Ubuntu 7.04 which is when I actually switched to Linux full time.

    ArchLinux since 2011. Still running that install to this day!

  • madjo@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    First operating system was DOS 4 or 5, I think. On big 5.25” floppy disks on an 8088. Unless we’re counting whatever was running on a commodore vic20.

    My first Linux distribution was Red hat Linux, somewhere around 1997, 1998 and I had a really tough time getting it installed.

    I also once had a trial version of os/2 warp. Which was fun but pointless.

    • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      There’s a few things from dos that have a permanent place my soul. A:/KEEN.exe, idkfa, iddqd and gorillas.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    my first was windows for workgroups 3.11 with msdos 6.22 back in 1994; later upgraded to windows 95.

    my first linux as mandrake linux (aka mandriva) in 2002 on kernel 2. i use linux fulltime now and no longer own a windows computer.

  • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Comodore 64 os in the late 80’s then msdos, win 3.1, etc. First Linux distro i believe was either slackware or debian.

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    DOS/Win3.1 I was pretty young. It was far back enough that it was still common to find Apple II’s in my grade-school classrooms off to the side for when we had downtime. I regret that I was just a little too young to experience the Commodore 64 craze.

  • tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    First OS was C64’s Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 GEOS, if that even counts as an OS, the next was Amiga 500’s AmigaOS

    First Linux distro was Fedora

  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Windows 1998 on a Pentium2. First linux distro was Ubuntu, uh…8.04 I think ? That was much later.