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What is your story of your first encounter with a Linux Distro?

Here's mine (Slight long version) –
Back in my 8th grade I used to buy Tech magazines that used to have DVDs filled with random updated contents like Audio/Video tools, Wallpapers and other stuff. There used to be this "Linux Distro of the Month" section that I used to ignore because I didn't know what it is.
But one issue of the magazine had a review of this "amazing new" Ubuntu 10.10. I read it and at first I thought it's some kind of theme for Windows (I know). But then I tried it out on my HP Compaq nx6120 which had a pure BIOS. No UEFI shit. Ubuntu came with it's wubi installer and it installed Ubuntu smoothly like a normal software. Later I discovered that it is a completely different operating system that doesn't run anything from my Windows. I was upset about it and I booted back to Windows.
But I never removed it. I felt like exploring what it was and why people use it.
It's almost 9 years later and I'm so glad with what had happened back then.

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  • 5
    Similar to your story, I bought a magazine with some Distros on it and tried them from time to time.
    At first I was confused, since it wasn't required to download software form random websites and then discovered that you can install them via the command line

    ... A few years forward and I have a collection of raspberry pis and I'm running my own Debian sever with multiple virtual machines 😁
  • 2
    On Devrant, a user made a post about it.
  • 4
    My first encounter was SuSE Linux 6.4 which I bought during the summer of 2000.
    I had been working on on cross-dev libraries for Linux and Amiga OS with a friend of mine in 1999.
    However, the Amiga was practically dead, and I got my first PC in late 1999.
    Windows ME was like "Winblows Meh" for me, and my buddies Linux got my attention.
    After many journeys, like RedHat and Slackware, a friend of mine suggested this "cool new DIY Linux" called Gentoo, which I switched to in fall 2003.
    ...never looked back...
  • 4
    First experience was with Ubuntu 14.04

    Was a pure windows boy but in high school my friends and I wanted to get admin rights to install some SDK's on our school laptop so we would use Ubuntu on a live USB to force admin access (I can't even remember how we did it) on windows.

    Since then it's been a pleasant transition into the Linux master race
  • 5
    @lxmcf Easy. Mount C: using ntfs-3g,then erase the Administrator password from the registry. 😉
  • 0
    I was using it cause of my dad
  • 2
    I don’t remember, it was a long time ago. I think I first tried to install Debian, but the installation threw me off, then I ended up with Ubuntu 8.04. Back then they actually mailed you a physical install CD for free.
  • 3
    Replace ’Linux Distro’ with ’Member of the opposite sex’, thank you.
  • 2
    At the time of realization -
    Girl - 1
    @boopboop - 0
    Lol
  • 0
    @Yamakuzure @lxmcf Or mount C and copy cmd.exe to utilman.exe or to sethc.exe
  • 1
    Everywhere I saw people saying Linux makes programmers more productive, and I also saw people saying Arch is the best -> my first distro was Arch Linux (still is btw)
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