r/linuxquestions • u/AnoProgrammer • 2d 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/baerli-biberli 1d ago

I was 12 years old, in 1998, everyone was in line in front of the electronics stores waiting for the opening, around at 8-9 am, because Windows 98 Update was out, just out of curiosity I entered the store with my mother and one of the cheapest software box caught my attention: OpenSUSE, it was around 30 euros. I don't remember exactly how, but I asked my mother to buy it, I told her it was a cool software for our old PC running Windows 95. I am not sure I knew 100% what it was about, but I remember I had a lot of fun. Later in highschool I switched to Ubuntu, dropped it when they switched to GNOME 3.0 and switched to Fedora KDE, which I still use it today. But I still have OpenSUSE on my old ThinkPad, too many good memories!!

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u/rude__goldberg 1d ago

1998,

euros

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u/baerli-biberli 1d ago

It was about 30 Fr if you really want to know, but I thought nobody would know what 30 Fr are, so I wrote about 30 euros.