Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry

Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)

I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)

  • @Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    It was no distro, it was kernel 0.99 and bunch of gnu utils on like 8 floppy disks, and 10 more floppies or so for X11. I was running it on a 486DX50 iirc.

  • @Grumpybumblebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Linux 0.2, not.joking. a friend came with it to me, just downloaded from a newsgroup (I think) around 1992, on a floppy! We tested it on my PC, didn’t know what to do with it, and promptly removed it. A few years later we gave it another try, and the rest is history

  • @filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    A friend of mine gave me an official Ubuntu 4.10 CD and that was my first Linux distro that I have tried.

    I still have that CD.

  • @astropenguin5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    Mint, because it’s what my dad put on my first laptop when I was like 10 or something. I remember playing minetest and FTL on it.

  • @irkli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    386BSD, on a 386dx processor with 4mb ram. Compiled from 24 3.5" floppies that took 24 hours to compile. Before Linux existed.

    • @mea_rah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      Technically this does not answer OP’s question, but thank you anyways. Now I don’t feel that old.

      • @irkli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Lol, yeah after I posted that I realized that …

        Olds not so bad. The alternative is worse.

  • @clementineholic@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    I did some research on what would be a good OS for someone coming from Windows and at the time Linux Mint was recommended a lot so that’s what I chose.

  • @sep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Redhat. When it came time to upgrade i dug myself into rpm hell so many times. I struggled, had to reinstall. Next redhat upgrade, same experience.
    I tried debian potato, and dist-upgraded to next stable with no issues. I was floored. Have been dist-upgrading ever since. And run a few hundreds of debian servers.

  • @zrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Knoppix, on a live CD. Then shorty after, Aurox Linux, distributed as a number of CD with a magazine. Around 2004-2005. Then Mandriva.

  • @popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    I learned on Red Hat back in the 90s

    I had got a copy for free some place, so I taught myself how to install and use it

  • Dick JusticeEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    DSL (Damn Small Linux) was what I started plying with, but my first daily driver was PCLOS.