Yes, im doing le funy Meme. And yes, I am an autist, with some signs towards something adhd adjacent

I first tried Linux Mint when I was 12, eventually changed to Ubuntu when I was 13 or 14 because I saw the Windows 11 copilot button, installed arch at late 14, and got to gentoo when I was 15.

Can anyone beat me to it?

  • freshOffTheBoat@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Recently started learning Linux with ChatGPT…

    And WOW! I love Linux!! It’s so easy to deploy apps with Docker!

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    Back at the university, sometime around 1995 when I needed a Unix for the exams. Downloaded on 1.4 Mb floppies

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    I first started Ubuntu as a minecraft server, then last year I actually started using it as a desktop.

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    I messed around trying to get Redhat 7.2 or 7.3 working but gave up (Q1 or Q2 2002). I later experimented with SuSe (or however it was stylised in Q1 2005), messed about with Knoppix and a few other distros, before properly going all-in on Ubuntu 5.04 when I was 18.

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    about 20 years ago. Early 2000s I started messing around with Redhat and was suprised that a full OS that did most of the windows things was available for free. when Ubuntu gained traction I jumped on that and tried distro hopping a bit before landing aolidly on Debian derivatives as my linux of choice. I remember catching a ban in WoW because WINE was detected by their anti cheat for a while.

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    Slackware. 1993.

    I’m old lol.

    Been through:

    Slackware

    Mandrake

    Debian

    Ubuntu

    Redhat , old and new

    Fedora

    Arch

    Knoppix

    Pop!

    CentOS

    Enlightenment

    Etc etc…

    Right now I’m living on KDE Neon.

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    Built my first PC in High School from scraps. Decided to try Ubuntu 10.04 (current at the time).

    I was very impressed with how much performance a free OS could get out of my awful hardware. Have been using Linux in some form as my OS ever since.

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    I installed Ubuntu in 2007 or so, but moved right after and got a new computer, so I didn’t really do anything with it. I installed Peppermint 9 on a new laptop a few years before Windows 7 went EOL because it came with Windows 10 installed but couldn’t actually run it. Ran great with Linux. When Windows 7 stopped getting security updates, I installed Peppermint on my desktop, too. After the man dev passed away, the project went it a different direction, so I switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. That was a few years ago. Still with it, still happy.

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    In my early teens, I got really into computers, built my first PC when I was about 13, started learning Windows batch scripting and using GameMaker to make goofy PC games.

    Along the way, I found Trinity Rescue Kit and was also introduced to Fedora Core by a nerdy guy who worked at my local YMCA.

    I didn’t actually enjoy it too much back then, so I left it alone for years until about 5 years ago when I started to get back into the free software movement and related interests.

    I’ve been 100% on Linux for about 4 years now and never looked back.

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      Many thanks for your reply. You’re pretty experienced at both hardware as well as software l presume. I’d be highly obliged if you can be my guide in creating my website.

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    In University. In the 90s we used commercial un*x (HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Solaris/SunOS, SCO) and some others like SVR4, BSD, Minix. Then a guy on usenet talked about making is own kernel running on a 386. My first real full linux install was kernel 0.99 on a 486DX50, around 1993, came in multiple floppies, then to install X11 that was like 10 more floppies! Configuring things was a bit nighmarish.

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    I started robotics at 12, started linux aroumd the same time but had to use windows for the program used for robotics competitions,

    Stopped attending them at 14 so started using arch right after that and used it for 6 years.

    After that used gentoo for a year at 20, and now I’m 21 using nixos.

    I also started selfhosting with linix vps-s at around the age of 18, with debian. And last week started to move all my server to nixos with nixos-anywhere and deploying the server with deploy-rs.

    Might make a blogpost on my selfhosting journey and on how I use nixos for selfhosting. Haven’t made a post since the start of the year.

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    I started 28 years ago with Slackware 3.0, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, took a detour via OS X, then back to Ubuntu, now Arch.

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    Just to put you all on notice: I started my kids on Linux from day 1 of their computing lives. I’m playing the long game here. In another 80 years they’re going to be in the longest living users category.

    They mostly use Linux as their daily drivers. Any time they have to use windows for school work they also rage at the terrible UI and lack of ease of use. <Insert evil laughter here>

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    Only since last July. It’s Arch btw. I love it, but wifey doesn’t understand it and therefore I still have windows. ☹️

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    Also early 2000s here, but I was in my late 20s by then. Started out on Debian not that long before Woody came out, then before too long I tried Mandrake alongside it.

    Exciting stuff for someone who first set hands (and started into BASIC) on a TRS-80, and then ran GEOS on a C64 for years. I was drawn to the opportunities for more tinkering, among other things.