What was your first distro? (piefed.world)

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Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol

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[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

ubuntu because it was marketed as the distro newcomers should choose.

Nowadays you can't go wrong with one of the big ones but fedora with ublue has the first mover advantage

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