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_haha_oh_wow_ ,
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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

beta_tester , (edited )

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

I_Am_Jacks_____ ,

In 1993, a guy I knew had a Linux server running in his dorm room. I think it was a 0.9x kernel. He dialed into the University network and I was able to telnet in through my own dial up connection to the University. He was running Slackware.

Within a couple months, I downloaded all 30+ 1.44 diskette images and built my own Slackware server. In that time I used Slackware and Red Hat (which then became Fedora before RHEL became a thing). Now I’ve pretty much settled on Debian for servers and Arch for desktop/laptop systems.

Eldritch ,

Yep. Came across it in college in 94. Early slack as well. Went through the rite of passage of installing over the pre existing OS accidentally. Bye bye windows 3.11 lol. But got it all figured out and learned a lot in the process. Distro hopped a lot over the years but eventually settled on Debian on my servers and arch distros for my workstations.

bloopernova ,
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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

aniki ,

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.

Cwilliams ,

That job sounds awesome. You nerd out about Linux and get paid for it?

aniki ,

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.

Cwilliams ,

Well, I’m still in Uni now, so internships sound like something that I should prioritize?

aniki , (edited )

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.

yianiris ,
@yianiris@kafeneio.social avatar

If I did it again I would go into mycology and run around forests to collect samples, while some forests still exist.
@aniki @Cwilliams

aniki ,

You do that after you sell your startup to google and cash out for the rest of your life.

yianiris ,
@yianiris@kafeneio.social avatar

There is much more to life than being a screw in the machine that is killing all of us.
@aniki

aniki ,

I didn’t ask and I don’t care what you think

yianiris ,
@yianiris@kafeneio.social avatar

I wasn't talking to you either, I was speaking in general, to the public about all of us. Who cares what you do?
@aniki

aniki ,

The fucking bloke asking about my job, pillock.

boerbiet ,

Started out with Mandrake in 1998 and got into Debian shortly after. I moved to Gentoo in 2002. In the later 2000s I only used my desktop for gaming and stopped dual booting for many years. My home server runs BSD and I was using a 2010 MacBook as my laptop. The only Linux box in my home was my HTPC, running Ubuntu.

When I heard of Proton I started dual booting again. In 2020 I got rid of Windows and the aging MacBook. Since then my desktop, laptop and HTPC run on Arch. The server is still FreeBSD.

xor ,

bout 20 years ago, i was using knoppix and dyne:bolic… then backtrack, then kali…
linux mint, kubuntu, lubuntu… ubuntu…
probably because i like programming and thought hacking was kool…
I think im gonna try Void Linux next… i’ve heard great things…
i’ve still kept my dual boot all this time, because of a couple programs… and a backup for when i brick my linux partition…

banazir ,
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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.

Corngood ,

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.

CrypticCoffee ,

I tried a long time ago on Mandrake or Mandriva, cannot remember. Didn’t stick and eventually after trying to use Windows 10 on a HDD, Linux Mint welcomed me with open arms. Now duel booting on OpenSuse but haven’t started Windows in 6 months. I just don’t need it anymore. Thanks to the Wine and proton teams!

peanutbutter_gas ,

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.

peanutbutter_gas ,

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.

Dagamant ,

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.

cetvrti_magi ,
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Started more than 2 years ago with Ubuntu, now I’m on EndeavourOS.

WreckingBANG ,
@WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml avatar

I started because of ProxMox on my Server. I started about a Year ago with Linux Desktops because of Privacy. I wanted to only use it for Office and have a Windows Dual Boot for Gaming. Then i tried a few Games on Linux and realized that Proton is great. Then i only used Linux. Then i deleted Windows. Now i love Linux and Hate Windows

guh65 ,

Datamining thread

sping ,

…I was almost tempted to answer it literally (geographically)

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