IIRC, my first distribution ever was Xandros. Probably some time in 2005 or 2006. Cannot exactly recall for certain. Back then, hardware compatibility with Linux was hopeless; none of my hardware worked properly; wifi cards not detected, GPUs not detected and defaulting to an ugly 800 x 600 resolution. Ditched it and went back to Windows in less than an hour. Since it was more of a tryout, it probably does not count.
Next distribution was a Red Hat distribution but again, I cannot remember what it was. Same thing; no hardware recognized, back to Windows, Ditto Fedora Core 3.
I think i first started looking at Linux a little more seriously starting from Ubuntu 7.04; it was the first distribution to work on my Macbook back then. But school requirements eventually forced me back to Mac OS X 10.4
By 2010 I was using Linux regularly and it was on Mandriva Free 2010.x. So I suppose Mandriva could be counted as my first production-use Linux distribution. Eventually dropped Mandriva and started distri-hopping between Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Mageia.
Today, laptop uses Fedora 23 (with custom kernels and drivers built) and desktop uses Ubuntu 15.10 (also with custom kernel and drivers built). I think I have more or less standardized myself among these distributions in order of preference:
Next distribution was a Red Hat distribution but again, I cannot remember what it was. Same thing; no hardware recognized, back to Windows, Ditto Fedora Core 3.
I think i first started looking at Linux a little more seriously starting from Ubuntu 7.04; it was the first distribution to work on my Macbook back then. But school requirements eventually forced me back to Mac OS X 10.4
By 2010 I was using Linux regularly and it was on Mandriva Free 2010.x. So I suppose Mandriva could be counted as my first production-use Linux distribution. Eventually dropped Mandriva and started distri-hopping between Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Mageia.
Today, laptop uses Fedora 23 (with custom kernels and drivers built) and desktop uses Ubuntu 15.10 (also with custom kernel and drivers built). I think I have more or less standardized myself among these distributions in order of preference:
- Fedora
- Debian
- *buntus
- Mageia
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