What Did You Do First With Linux?

ruphus13 writes "OStatic has an interesting article on remembering the first time you used Linux. Quoting: 'I'm not sure if the admission that I remember my first Linux installation much more clearly than any date with my first boyfriend or my first date with my husband is a really wise thing to put in writing. I will freely admit it wasn't quite as anxiety-inducing as a date, and the long-term relationship that sprang from it taught me quite a bit about myself, how I learn, and how to passionately load kernel modules at boot. So, what was your first Linux experience?'"

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Re:If I remember correctly...

[Max Littlemore]

I think mine was a CD on a magazine cover. 1998 I think, perhaps '99. Funnily enough, I think I first read /. on that system, but of course I didn't register until around 2004/5 or something

I Had a lot of trouble getting it to behave the way I wanted on a pentium with 16MB of ram. At first it was little more than a test web server. Definitely not a desktop.

I kept trying until I discovered enlightenment (in beta), which to date is still my favourite ever desktop environment thingy. Kind of like the maid. Clean, quick and pretty, but start to fuck with it and things get complicated...

These days I use Linux 100% on my own machines, gnome and android, and have trouble understanding why anyone would actually want Windows or OSX. Seriously, XP is a bitch to set up to work efficiently, any windows OS after that is so slow that it's not funny and OSX requires the apple 100% tax for no obvious advantage.

Yay, got my OS of choice flamewar trigger in ; )