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  • @GenProtectionFaultEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    At the time, I bought a boxed copy of 7.0 at Wal-Mart of all places. That was my first introduction to Linux. Mandrake was easy enough that I could fumble through and learned a ton in the process. Grateful for its existence and the fact that they had a retail version for someone without reliable Internet access at the time

    • zikEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Same. I still have my copy of Mandrake 7.2.

    • Paolo AmorosoOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      At the time I used Slackware and Red Hat which definitely required tweaking at least xorg.conf and more.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 year ago

    I found out about linux in 2001 while using mIRC on Windows 98 and telling someone about all the crashes and BSOD I was getting. They recommended I try linux. Someone offered to burn Mandrake 8.0 cd’s and mail them to me. I used it for about 2 years before I first started distro hopping.

  • dozens
    3•1 year ago

    @amoroso My first linux! Around 2001 it was the only thing that would run on my laptop with no issues.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    Definitely my first distro. My S3 graphic card was partially supported so I spent a lot of time tweaking X86Config in tty which for sure contributed to build my comfort in the terminal.

    While I for sure tried many distros, my 20+ years path of daily drivers was quite straightforward

    Mandrake SuSE Debian Arch (probably Server only?) Ubuntu NixOS