I started around the time when Windows 95 came out. Slackware was my jam. I now run Arch on one box and Debian 12 on another. It helped my career as a sysadmin.
I first experienced Linux around 2020 when Windows was getting super slow on my gaming pc at the time but couldn’t make the jump because I was still heavy into games like League of Legends. I started off hopping around with Mint, Elementary and Fedora.
Once I started moving towards playing retro games on emulator and gaming on Switch I made the switch. I did A LOT of distro hopping and was never satisfied. Now I’ve finally settled on Fedora and built it from the ground up with the Everything iso and running Qtile. Using Linux has made me realize I love tinkering with computers, electronics and it has made me interested in programming. It’s been a ride (though a short one), but it has helped me find new interests I didn’t know I had and learn there’s a lot more than just Windows.
I mean current version really doesn’t mean anything because people aren’t going to upgrade if the version they’re using is fine. I submit that this is a perfect example of correlation != causation. I may have gotten the order wrong on the not equal symbology since I haven’t used it in a while.
Also, are we talking Linux kernal versions? There are so many problems with this comparison.
It was Red Hat Linux 8.0 (not to be confused with RHEL 8), I think, that I first dabbled in Linux, that was around early 2003, and then I moved on to Fedora Core 1. But I went exclusively-Linux with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) in 2006.
I’ve moved around since then but for the last 5 years I’ve ended up back on Fedora, where I’ve been since version 28, now version 39.
I installed Linux on my personal computer about 3 months ago. I have been running EndeavourOS and recommend it.
It all started when every browser dropped support on my old MacBook. I installed arch Linux and was completely blown away by the increase in performance. It’s insane how much MacOS was holding me back. Insane. Decided to buy a new drive for my desktop computer and installed Manjaro on a trial basis, leaving windows as a fallback option if needed. A week later I installed EndeavourOS and got rid of windows altogether.
It has been a bumpy road, lots of small little problems. Nvidia GPU certainly doesn’t help.
I was in college looking to avoid writing papers, and I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (2007). Still run Linux PC s and servers. Work with Windows all day :p
I think it was 1998 or so? I put Mandrake on my Sony Vaio Pentium II MMX.
I’m trying out Fedora again on an AMD Ryzen 5 system I built last year. Was running Nobara for several months prior. And Mint for about 10 years before that. Prior to that I was on MacOS and/or Windows. I don’t think I had a Linux system at that time.
1998 - was working for a company using RedHat as a dev environment for AIX mini computer based software.
Started to dual boot my own pc of the time with Win95/8 and RedHat, then Mandrake Linux. Since then I’ve dual booted every PC I’ve owned with various distros.
When cfw for ps3 came out you needed either a ti-84 calculator or an iphone to put the firmware on the console. I had an iphone so installed ubuntu on my pc so i could dual boot ios and android on the phone then replace android with the cfw. I never even knew there was anything but windows back then.
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