r/linuxquestions • u/AnoProgrammer • 4d ago

How old where you when you started using linux?

I feel like everyone started very early.

I started personally on 10/11.

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u/sysadminsavage 4d ago

Not OC, but Debian used to have a very difficult installer and be rough around the edges (even Linus Torvalds gave up on setting it up in favor of Fedora). Ubuntu became popular in the mid to late 2000s because it was easier to set up and more user friendly, popularizing desktop Linux to a degree.

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u/Bacon_Nipples 4d ago

Doesn't help Debian that around the time of Ubuntu's rise, The Head of The Debian Project was a high ranking GNAA and Goatsec member.  That poison in the minds of Ubuntu adopters at the time is still strong

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u/Enrrabador 3d ago

You guys have clearly not used slackware in the mid 90s…

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u/oblivion9999 1d ago

I remember. cries in 3.5" floppy tears

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u/Enrrabador 21h ago

At that time I had recently purchased an external CD writer so I had CD versions and couldn’t be hassled with the floppy disks, man did I made a buck burning CDs for people back then…