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What was your first distro? (piefed.world)
submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Slackware, to get away from the pink boys! Also there were only two or three distributions at the time.
Too many to remember since then.

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