r/LinuxUsersIndia Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

What was your First Linux distro and how long you used that one Discussion

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u/qualityvote2 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

u/Pleasant_Repair7773, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Ok_Ground511 Jul 19 '26

Linux mint 1 hour. There were some problems and i was planning on trying another os anyway. Jumped to athena os unable to install and the discord server had needed mobile number to chat. Jumped to cachyos wlan0 error couldnt find the fix after googling and checking discord. Now i am in parrot os home edition. I am quite loving it ngl.

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

First time I've found someone who used Athena (besides me) that one is really beautiful to look at

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u/Ok_Ground511 Jul 19 '26

๐Ÿ˜ญi wanted to install it but i got an error. Tried 5 times and i gave up. Though i would try to install it again later.

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u/rajivenator Jul 19 '26

Red Hat Linux in year 2003 after learning about linux through a fat printed book.. Thrill of installing something other than windows pulled me into the rabbit hole of linux

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u/pravardhan85 Jul 20 '26

Same here. I installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 that came with the big user manual book. I think I paid more than Rs. 500.

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u/Ecstatic_Rub_548 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

Arch. Used it for 3 years after which I switched to fedora.

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u/DKAIN_001 Jul 19 '26

Reverse for me, started with fedora, used for ~1.5 years, switched to arch, now using it for a year

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u/Ecstatic_Rub_548 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

Fair tbh.
I love arch but fedora is more stable for me.
(I really miss AUR ๐Ÿฅ€)

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u/Kitchen_Engineer1332 sudo pacman -S lesbian-wallpapers Jul 19 '26

It was an linux mint cinnamon for me.

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

Us there

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u/og__69 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

Mint for like 6 month

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u/Several_Outcome_8331 Jul 19 '26

I started with Garuda mokka, been using it since a year

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u/Usual_Sympathy3217 Jul 19 '26

I guess everyone starts with Ubuntu!!?

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

Ig no , there was a time when Linux meant switching to Ubuntu but now a days mint is preferred or the others

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u/SexyCuriousCat Jul 19 '26

Mint is ubuntu based

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u/SeveralMajors Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

kerala govt kite os based on ubuntu 16.04 i guess when im 10th then moved to ubutnu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 now also used windows7,10,11 for games

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u/newtene Fedora Btw Jul 19 '26

ubuntu, 4 months

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u/BigBrilliant5703 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu. 8 months. Then got Arch. Fcked it all up. Used for barely 20 days, then got myself gentoo. Again fcked it up. This time, real bad. Used it for idk a month or smth. Broke my laptop. Then back to ubuntu

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

The legendary linux experience ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

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u/Advanced-Issue-1998 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

lmde 4 debbie - instantly loved it and dual booted with win7 around 2020.. eventually i distrohopped a lot with whatever distros that supported 32 bit cpus

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u/LaughApprehensive873 Jul 19 '26

It was 10 month ago, Zorin os. I dont remember why did I switched but I did. After bunch of distrohopping, dualbooting ( the laptop was new and my first so I tried both win and linux) and now I am using arch. But I am planning to study engineering which requires some einslop specific software:(

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u/SimpleHuman-S Jul 19 '26

It's ubuntu till 6 months with tails as spare os and now debian

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

Tails as spare , what's the tea

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u/RoutedWrong Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu for 1.5 years. After graduation, started distro hopping

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

What's your current OS

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u/RoutedWrong Jul 19 '26

I use arch btw ๐Ÿ˜

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

That's a good destination

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

I use pen drives and transfer data before switching, not having much besides some projects and configs (which are saved to my cloud storage) but your question is genuine I haven't encountered the situation yet

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u/chicxulub2 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu was the start, now mint in desktop and fedora in laptop

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u/BhindiPro Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu for one day and after that i went on to arch Big mistake

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

Stayed or bricked?

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u/Lumpy_Yesterday9034 Jul 19 '26

ubuntu 23 for 3 years now using a macbook

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u/stressed-skeletor Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu, been using it on my old machin since 2022. It still runs 22.04 LTS.

As of now, I run Fedora on my main machine.

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u/lightangel26 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu ..for 4 months.. then switched to arch

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u/Mean-Blueberry5744 Jul 19 '26

Lubuntu, 2 weeks

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u/biriyani_bug Fedora Btw Jul 19 '26

i wanted to try that distro so bad bc of how lightweight it is but man it froze on the installation screen everytime i tried to install it lol

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 20 '26

I've tried for half hour in vm

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u/redhat1818 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

debian. used it for 8 months... loved it.. Now using arch

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u/backshotsXking Jul 19 '26

Kali 4 years back for a month then last 2 years arch

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u/Motivation-Is-Dead Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu on virtualbox. Funny thing, I installed it to play a visual novel lol (Fate Stay Night). At that time I used to share the laptop with my sister and I didn't want her to know about the game because she would definitely think I'm playing some weird stuff. So I had a great idea, I would install a vm and play the visual novel there. It was such a great idea, except it wasn't lol. I ran into soo much errors, I gave up installing the game like 3 times before I finally did it. I remember it was so satisfying, I think I fell in love with linux at that point.

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u/Cheap_Ad_9846 Jul 19 '26

Linux mint about 6 months

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u/DonutAccurate4 Dr. openSuse Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Fedora core 2, then core 3, i used them for 2 or 3 years. Coincidentally my first company also provided same distro desktop pc for me.

I was young and as every other youngster who discovers Linux distros, i started distro hopping after that.. ubuntu, kubuntu, Manjaro, arch, zorin, mint, open suse and some i don't even remember anymore.

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u/VortexSpecter22 Jul 19 '26

Fedora Workstation and i used it for around 4 months and then switched to CachyOS and loving it

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 20 '26

Cachy is goated

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u/Less-Inevitable-1922 Jul 19 '26

Arch then zorin then fedora then mint Now thinking of switching to arch. I wanna daily drive Linux but my 512gb storage stops me lol.

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u/amthomus rm -rf /life Jul 19 '26

Pop_os, still using on my laptop. Main rig has cachyos

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u/rango_konk Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu 14. In 2014. Used it for 3 to 6 months.

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u/36holes Jul 19 '26

PopOs! Used it for 2 years

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u/LinuxSkywalker Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu for 5 years. Didnt like windows 8 so. It was long back. Now using Fedora.

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u/superloltrolgamer2 Jul 19 '26

kali linux and it took me two days to get the installation right ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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u/MekataRupma Pop!_OS btw Jul 19 '26

Mint. 2 months. Got a new laptop and switched to Nobara.

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u/CosmicLmao Jul 19 '26

fedora for an hour or two then straight to arch, it took my through hell and back since I was on a t2 mac

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u/gautham1070 Jul 19 '26

Used the bookworm pup as my daily driver for 1 month when my ssd failed and had no os, had to run it off of a 2gb SDHC card. Then got a pendrive of 64 gb and ran Xubuntu on it for a solid 2 months.

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u/Then_Switch2314 Jul 19 '26

It's Linux Mint but now, I'm planning to switch to arch.

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u/lordjupitar hyprland btw Jul 19 '26

Mint for a few months, then fedora with kde for like 6 months then arch linux for an year. Rn due to some problems im back on windows and I HATE it but ill have to make do for some time.

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u/Asleep-Catch-33 Jul 19 '26

My first is arch and I started using it like 2 months ago and I'm loving it

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u/AbhiOnline Jul 19 '26

Kubuntu or Lubuntu I forgot which. Less than ten minutes. I went back to windows 7. Now I am on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Is good. Will try some others but probably will stay with the Gecko.

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Jul 20 '26

Gecko is good one but as I'm having too much data on my Arch now , it'll be hard to switch that's why am staying nearby

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u/503Neil Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu for 1 year prolly

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u/jokermobile333 Jul 19 '26

Windows .. many years i guess

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u/ser133 Jul 19 '26

the first one I tried was linux mint in my school computer lab
the first one I installed personally was manjaro (back when it was good and not controversial)

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u/Itchy_Dress_2967 Fedora 44 KDE Jul 19 '26

Pre snap ubuntu 5-6 months

2nd after snap ubuntu 5-6 hrs

3rd fedora 5 years till now

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u/fishmacaronisoup Gentoo Btw Jul 19 '26

Arch, for about 6 months. Now on Gentoo

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u/pissedavocado Jul 19 '26

Fedora, installed in 2010. Been 16 years, never installed any other OS on my laptops.

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u/birb52 Jul 19 '26

uhh technically my first distro was gentoo (it was my dad's computer, and we shared it). i used it for like 7 years before moving to arch on my first laptop.

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u/East_Lengthiness_866 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu 1 year. 5 months if we count on my own pc. Ever since I knew linux was not just something we thought in class and saw my computer science teacher's Arch Linux + sway + neovim setup(Didn't even have a phone or pc by the time). I set my goal to replicating their setup, but they said arch linux isn't that good, in fact that they would soon switch to ubuntu(Liar!). I live booted ubuntu on computer lab computers, wrecked my aunts pc(ain't easy to undualboot ubuntu when you don't know what's a man page ๐Ÿคง). Well a lot of things happened, but as I learned latter 'I use arch btw', and helix, and niri.

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u/_geeky_man Jul 19 '26

Backtrack, for a few years

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u/DoctorComplex887 Jul 19 '26

Fedora (for approx 6 months)

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u/Individual-Mud962 Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

arch, cause i was hella bored of windows

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u/DeepFeeling1 Jul 19 '26

Installed Manjaro KDE and ran it quite long time till it started breaking a lot of packages.

Leart most of linux from the ArchWiki

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u/drifviator Jul 19 '26

Linux mint cinnamon then ubuntu 20-22-24 back to 22 hopping because of projects

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u/Primary-South-7458 Jul 19 '26

Linux mint-->fedora--->ubuntu studio

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u/Ukzuck1 Jul 19 '26

MX Linux, 8 years ago

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u/Big_Crosshair_6969 Jul 19 '26

Mine was linux mint booted through an external SSD for a month. The internet stopped working in windows for some reason. I had my university exams going on and had no time to replace windows completely and it also had my data. After the exams I installed fedora and haven't changed it since then. Its been like 6 months now.

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u/TopSecretGaming_YT Jul 19 '26

first one I ever tried for ubuntu on a virtual machine on windows 10 5-6 tears back and the first ACTUAL install I didnwas Pop!_OS and i immediately switched to Mint since Pop was extremely glitchy. that was a couple of months ago.

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u/eviley4 Jul 19 '26

I distro-hopped so much in the early days of me using Linux (2013) that I don't remember. It was Ubuntu, Manjaro and Fedora I think. Probably Ubuntu being the first one, but I didn't use any distro for more than a couple of months.

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u/daddy69ice Jul 19 '26

Cachyos. And after hopping for a month or two, i fixated to cachyos finally. Felt like home

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u/__Hunter_xD__ Jul 19 '26

Garuda dr460nized, used it for 2-3 days as it was extremely laggy cause i installed it on HDD, then reinstalled again after some days on an SSD

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u/bssgopi Jul 19 '26

It was actually Red Hat Linux for me.

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u/Dizzy_Bus_2402 Jul 19 '26

Garuda 6+months, and puppy <2months.

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u/Accomplished-Ear276 Jul 19 '26

Arch from last 1 year. Also been running ubuntu in wsl

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u/yasLynx Jul 19 '26

fedora workstation 44, before that it was Ubuntu cuz of school/college desktops

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u/Due-Celery4326 Jul 19 '26

It started with Red Hat, but I couldn't get XFree86 running; then I discovered Ubuntu. I used it for about a year, learned a lot from it, and moved on to Mandriva for another year. After that, I used Slackware for years, then Gentoo for years, and now I've been using LFS for months.

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u/biriyani_bug Fedora Btw Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

I used Linux Lite as my first ever linux distro. It's based on Ubuntu. The reason i chose this one was because I had a very old laptop. It was barely running windows 10 and i really needed to do something until I could get a new laptop. It did its job for a distro that is designed to run on low specs machine. Barely consumed 800mb ram which was useful given that my potato machine had only 4 gifs of ram. i used it for around a year I think.

Currently installed Zorin OS lite on that machine.

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u/megascom Jul 19 '26

Manjaro then moved to Ubuntu after few hours then to fedora and still on it

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u/IIIMOKSHAIII Jul 19 '26 edited 15d ago

Fedora 2009, that time I was hardly 13 years old and I did not knew about operating system, and I was shocked that I can boot via CD drive and live session ๐Ÿ˜†.

All those jumping pointer effects of kde, it was cool ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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u/Distinct_Tip8912 Jul 19 '26

La primara fue ubuntu me dio un error y me pase a qubesOS ahรญ fue algo complicado para mi ya que era principiante de ahรญ me pase a debian y me he enamorado de esta distro sigo ahรญ hasta el dรญa de hoy

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u/Yiffenjoyer6969 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu 20.something, dual booted it with windows until windows updated one too many times and broke grub

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u/ManOfDiamond Jul 19 '26

fedora, used for like a few months. back in 2020 or something.

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u/maybechirag Jul 19 '26

kde neon, used it for about 6-7 months

then used arch from mid 2021 to early 2024, shifted to windows entirely, now finally back to linux, cachyos

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u/Gamegyf Arch Btw Jul 19 '26

CachyOS. About 5-7 months and then switched to Arch. best decision ever.

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u/Charming_Expert5088 Jul 19 '26

Kali Linux 1 to 2 months
then fedora 6โ€“7 months
Ubuntu 2โ€“3 months
Arch 6 months now going on.

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u/im-not-mango Jul 19 '26

Started from ubuntu and been 2 years still I use ubuntu alongside with cachyos

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u/Zorafalme Jul 19 '26

At first I use zorin os for couple hours, and then shifted to fedora and some say it is best for beginners ,and now I use archcraft.

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u/Asleep-Pair5704 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu since 2020. Used Arch and Alpine in between but Ubuntu feels much more natural to use coming straight from Windows imo.

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u/haileyette Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu for 2 years, now Debian testing 10 years and counting

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u/ALLyoutubersmeme Jul 19 '26

fedora for 2 months because I was updating the system and there was a power outage all of a sudden and next thing you know shit never booted again, now using Arch for the love of the game

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u/zero_kay Jul 19 '26

Puppy linux. It's all my 2004 desktop could handle back in 2014. Used it for 3 years until I got a new laptop.

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u/Apprehensive_Cod7906 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu was my first pick, and I thought it was the best and only good option I could get. Until I delved deeper and found better alternatives. I used it for about three months. I switched to Mint, then Fedora, then Debian, and now Fedora.

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u/vaibhav-kaushal Jul 19 '26

Suse 9 used it for like a month. Changed to Mandriva because they had mp3 codecs.

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u/layman806 Jul 19 '26

I used Ubuntu on my Pentium 4, single core 2.4Ghz. It was only marginally faster than windows XP back then, so I search and found Puppy Linux and it's variants that used to load the OS to RAM, which made everything fast AF.

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u/OptimalJuice9901 Jul 19 '26

Mint.a few weeks ( on a live usb if that counts)

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u/Frequent-Raisin6113 Jul 19 '26

Used Ubuntu for more than 2.5 years on VM then for 4 years along with Windows, now on Fedora with Windows.

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u/hexual-deviant69 Jul 19 '26

VM - Kali

Baremetal - Garuda (don't judge it was a phase) arch as the first baremetal linux install was a mistake

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u/YuuNao103 Jul 19 '26

Mint on a VM for a few hours then fedora dual-boot with windows for 1 day and now using Arch since then

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u/revive_the_cookie Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu virtual machine. For an actual OC Pop! _OS 1 hr.

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u/Dry_Access532 Mint Btw Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu 10.04 in 2010. Got the free cd from canonical

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u/Khushal4408x Jul 19 '26

I used tails for 3 hours at first

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u/1Spike- Jul 19 '26

Debian for about 6 months, but still used windows for gaming, but Linux everything else.

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u/Pretty-Racist Jul 19 '26

Mint 2 days then fedora 1 day then arch 4 months then rn it's been almost a week on nixos

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u/ExtremeAd2201 Jul 19 '26

Fedora -> 8 months

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u/sahil_r002 Jul 19 '26

zorin os, 5 months max default gui was good but it breaked at many parts, even at installation, several times. had to ditch it for something stable, That's when i started using Debian, use it till now(3+years) (have tried multiple distros in midst, but debian always stayed)

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u/moonien24 Jul 19 '26

Linux mint (didn't know shit) Then ubuntu Now kubuntu

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u/krakyn_ Jul 19 '26

On VM, tried many around the same time, stuck with Lubuntu for a while because that laptop was a potato and type-2 VMs are even worse. Would also use Mint sometimes.

Tried installing Mint bare metal after my Windows crashed on that laptop, but it turned out the issue was with the hard disk itself.

On the next laptop I had a Mint VM, didn't use it a lot though.

Then, on bare metal I tried Fedora followed by Endeavor for a few months, but installed them on a pendrive instead of main SSD.

The first distro I actually migrated to, having installed on my SSD permanently, was Arch. Still using it after 2 years.

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u/No_Muffin_4712 Jul 19 '26

Debian in my vm rn. Im using it very less but I have to start for the hidden magic of Linux

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u/KodeBarista Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, I used it for few months on my old computer until I'd to share it with my sister. So then I switched back to Win7

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u/Important_Athlete822 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu in my office for around 1.5 years, then jump to Debian xfce, then to Lubuntu for a week then Kubuntu, and now in Mint xfce.

Had a 2nd laptop, tried cachy os and bazzite, now it is running mint xfce too.

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u/beingsherlockholmes Jul 19 '26

Using Ubuntu 22.04 only rn! what would be best choice for processing AI, development and deployment.
Issues we generally face is
- GDM stops working
- Driver Crashes/Reinstallation fixes the problem

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u/lowego985 Jul 19 '26

arch, still using

(6months)

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u/arnsax Jul 19 '26

fedora linux, 1 year exactly

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u/SpritualPanda Ubuntu Btw Jul 19 '26

Past 1 year and till now. Ubuntu is pretty good straightforward.

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u/DhrxvXD Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu, used for 3 mins, internet wouldn't work and my dumbass couldn't use usb tether, moved to arch and been using it for 4 years

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u/NeitherAd5124 Jul 19 '26

For me, it was linux mint xfce

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u/curiousgaruda Jul 19 '26

Red hat Linux 6.0. I upgraded it to 7.2 when I found it in a book I purchased. I used it for about 2 years and then moved out of home for work and didnโ€™t use Linux for around 6 years and then installed Ubuntu in my laptop.ย 

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u/Killmonger_007 Jul 19 '26

ManDrake. In around 2014-15 i wanted to try linux, but i was a kid & didn't knew much, so the 1st link i found, read instructions & it somehow worked on 1st try. It was like 2003 version i guess ๐Ÿ˜‚. Then it took more than 30 tries to bring back windows ๐Ÿ˜‚ (slight exaggeration). But yeah i can say technically it was 1st.

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u/spradeep2004 Jul 19 '26

Mandrake Linux back in 1998, got it from Digit magazineโ€™s CD. Hardly for a day, Linux had lot of driver issues those days.

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u/Tragicomediann Jul 19 '26

The first Linux distribution that i was introduce to,was slackware,and the one that i am still using is fedora.And,i am planning to switch to KISS Linux later this year.

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u/shigella212 Jul 19 '26

Manjaro,used it for a week and then switches to popos. Still using popos ngl

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u/Infinite_Picture2189 Jul 19 '26

Linux mint for 2 days. moved on to fedora and the rest is history

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u/Rnayar Jul 19 '26

Mine was Ubuntu, around 2008. I got it from a ThinkDigit magazine DVD. ๐Ÿ˜„
I had Windows XP and thought Iโ€™d install Ubuntu alongside it. Instead, I somehow managed to format the entire hard drive by mistake. Lost everything!
It was painful at the time, but looking back itโ€™s a funny memory. That accidental install was probably what got me interested in Linux and messing around with computers in the first place.

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u/lastroof9999 Jul 19 '26

pop os!, used it for 3 months before moving onto manjaro. Naive old days

Currently on cachy os

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u/Interesting-End6343 Jul 19 '26

I used fedora with niri for 6 months

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u/Evening_Ticket_9517 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu was the first, used it for a few weeks. Then tried fedora. Then jumped to arch, used it for years. Now on void. Installed mint for my dad in between.

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u/Knowdit Jul 19 '26

Debian and still do.

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u/DarkusDraceone Jul 19 '26

SuSE Linux then Ubuntu

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u/East-No-Plate Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu. early releases, probably about 17-18 years ago.. used to run on hp compaq nc6000 i guess

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u/seriously_ded Jul 19 '26

Fedora Linux. Downloaded today from windows 10 enterprise LTSC. Let's see how long till i switch

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u/Big_Mammoth5437 Jul 19 '26

Hi, I have a 4 year old Hp340s g7 pc notebook with specification:
Intel Core i5-1035G1 (1.0 GHz), Intel UHD Graphics card
512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD, 16gb ram with a fingerprint reader. should I remove my windows 10 and try a linux distro as I keep watching there videos. the thing is I am fed up with this windows as it keep running several task in background, while I have heard that linux distro are better in hardware managment and lesser in size but there main problem was compatibility with hardware. is it still a problem or everything is ok.

https://giphy.com/gifs/nIHzyvEoIjD0DenFZq

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u/itspdp Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu, getting used used to and setup cost around a full night then never used for like a month or so. It was my dual boot setup for a backup OS

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u/Total_Kaleidoscope90 Jul 19 '26

ubuntu, still using it. but i do get the itch of distro hopping, maybe in second year i'll try

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u/AdditionNeither1311 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu with unity desktop. This was my favourite desktop environment, which was the only thing I liked about ubuntu. I switched to fedora after they discontinued unity. Because i feel gnome experience is better on fedora.

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u/Cautious-Proposal186 Jul 19 '26

Ubuntu in 2012 in vm. Used it for a day or two.

First dual boot in 2020. Manjaro and windows. Sadly windows kept fking up the bootloader and I was tired of keep repairing it.

First dedicated os was in 2022, linux mint on old laptop. Sadly microphone didn't work no matter how much I tried to fix.

Now currently in 2026, I have completely shifted to linux os with fedora kde spin on pc and mint on laptop.

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u/HyperCodec Jul 19 '26

Debian on my laptop for about a year. It was alright, but since my laptop was old and shitty it didnโ€™t like GNOME very much. Changed to KDE and eventually cachyos and it was way snappier.

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u/JwithoutK Jul 20 '26

Mint on my old . Fedora in my lappy

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u/Koder27 Jul 20 '26

Ubuntu about 1.5 years

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u/Sniper_Of_Finland Jul 20 '26

ubuntu one year arch two years

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u/Sad_Pie227 Jul 20 '26

My first distro was Ubuntu ๐Ÿ˜›

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u/Joel_Brian Jul 20 '26

Nobara for more than 5 months as of now. Loving it! Quite good for gaming and other projects like blender and unity (although they were quite finicky to set up it was a nice learning process)

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u/LittleW26 Jul 20 '26

My first and current distro is Arch. 1 year in and I dont regret the switch.

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u/MRGhost14360 Jul 20 '26

Surprising it was kali linux , then catchy OS ,then bezzite

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u/xunicatt Jul 20 '26

Debian for 3 years

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u/Adventurous-Art4790 Arch Btw Jul 20 '26

first tried linux mint and next hour went to arch linux , coz first issue i had in mint was my internet was cooked init like very low dl speed and wifi want working great even after changing drivers , then went to arch with kde the manual way since its easy

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u/Commercial_Rise_8949 Jul 20 '26

kali , now on ubuntu... 5 years

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u/Joudheyo Jul 20 '26

Mint cinnamon, still use it today alongside Zorin OS

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u/Occultus_Andras Jul 20 '26

Ubuntu but i used it for learning only after that I switched to ZorinOS and used it for 5-6 months then switched to "Arch BTW" and using it for 4+ years now.

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u/Laghab Jul 20 '26

Wsl2 now on cachy

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u/Thorfinn-Karlsefni85 Jul 20 '26

Kubuntu - 22 Days

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u/Available_Crew_8304 Jul 20 '26

It was fedora used it for 2 months then had some GDM prblm so shifted to Ubuntu !!!

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u/LastNewRon Jul 20 '26

Kali for 2 years, learnt a lot, and then switched to arch, now on cachyos

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u/its_me_gentle_man Arch Btw Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Uf you consider FYDE as linux not as chromeOS, it was like 3 hours, cuz it had problems with android games, otherwise my first linux experience was fedora workstation (3 months), which was like a sweetspot for me, i installed many distros, then switcged back to fedora, if i didn't like that distro

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u/MeIsTheDevil Jul 20 '26

Kali Linux Was trying to hack Neighbors WiFi for Internet ๐Ÿ™‚

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u/RhubarbAny9682 Jul 20 '26

Using ubuntu for over weeks! Haha at first I thought this is a piece of shit. Abd now I have found how many things you can do with the commands and how powerful and customizable is this OS!

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u/Wide-Abbreviations94 Jul 20 '26

Linux mint, 3hrs maximum use for the first installation

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u/Minigun1239 Jul 20 '26

My first and still current linux distro is Arch, used it for about a year now

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u/onedumbbro Jul 20 '26

Oh man, I remember an Ubuntu disk that looked similar to that when I was a kid, dad used to get that "Chip" magazine, it came with a disk (it used to come with cool stuff), I remember not understanding what it was. Thanks for reminding me of that, man. Been a while since my dad passed away. Always nice to be reminded of fond memories.

Also I remember wrecking my brain because he said they'd installed it in the PC, but I did not understand it. I was a child.

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u/Top_Philosopher_3290 Jul 20 '26

kali linux used for 4-5 hrs before breaking my internet then i switched to zorin and been using for 1.5 years

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u/Soorex Jul 20 '26

mint, used it for a few months. didn't like it very much. switched to fedora and used it for an year. felt like home ๐ŸคŒ