•  mozz   ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 
    15•20 days ago

    Holy CRAP, am I literally the oldest person here?

    CP/M, with the 8" disks

    Then DOS -> Windows -> Linux (Mandrake, then tried a few different ones, then Debian and stuck with Debian)

  •  Max-P   ( @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 
    5•20 days ago

    Windows 95 and Macintosh LC, elementary school computer lab stuff. My grandpa had a Windows 3.1 IBM PS/2. Those were all pretty old and practically obsolete computers when I used those, 98SE was out and ME was right around the corner.

    My very first Linux distribution experience was Mandrake Linux I believe version 9 or something like that. Didn’t last that long though, I revisited Linux later with Ubuntu 7.04 which is when I actually switched to Linux full time.

    ArchLinux since 2011. Still running that install to this day!

  •  megane-kun   ( @megane_kun@lemm.ee ) 
    4•20 days ago

    First OS: Windows 3.1 running on top of MS-DOS 6.2

    First Linux distro: Ubuntu (forgot the version, but it was circa 2018).

    If I’d count an OS/Linux distro that I’ve used even if not in a machine I own, it’d be Linux Mint of circa 2006.

  •  Evkob   ( @Evkob@lemmy.ca ) 
    4•20 days ago

    I’m probably on the younger side of Lemmy, my first OS was Windows 98, but the first one I truly remember using is XP.

    When I really started getting into computers, our family PC was running Vista, and the first nerdy thing I remember doing was trying to “downgrade” that computer to XP. My parents were none too pleased when they saw that the PC wouldn’t boot, thinking I had bricked it. It took me about a week to getting XP running properly, and that feeling of satisfaction is what started my love for tinkering with computers (I’m definitely a noob compared to the average Lemmy user, though).

    Afterwards, I fell into the Apple fanboy pipeline and begged my parents for a MacBook. I was a huge Mac nerd, even saving up money as a teen for an iMac, until I started wanting to game more on PC, especially with friends on Steam. I then started dual-booting, initially XP but then Windows 7, and eventually I realized I was never booting into my Mac partition. I played around very occasionally with dual-booting Linux as well, Ubuntu and then Linux Mint, but this was more for computer nerd clout than a genuine need or interest for libre software, also the command line scared me and I still played too many games to main a Linux distro.

    I then built a PC for gaming, and ran Windows 7 on it until around 2 years ago when I got really into FOSS and switched to EndeavourOS which is what I’ve been happily using ever since. I’ve always enjoyed tinkering on computers, but with EndeavourOS I feel like I’m less battling with my OS and more with my lack of skill/knowledge, which is much more rewarding to surmount, and makes me feel like my system is truly mine.

  •  Disgruntled   ( @Disgruntled@lemmy.ca ) 
    4•20 days ago

    VIC=20, Commodore 64, Vendex HeadStart, Zenith (forget the model), Tandy TL/2, then I had a 386SX/20 built, then I started building my own starting with a 486-DX4/100.

    First dabbled with Linux when I bought a CD from Staples with “Linux95” on it. It was just Slackware. Then Red Hat 4.0 and Corel Linux.

  •  eldavi   ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) 
    2•19 days ago

    my first was windows for workgroups 3.11 with msdos 6.22 back in 1994; later upgraded to windows 95.

    my first linux as mandrake linux (aka mandriva) in 2002 on kernel 2. i use linux fulltime now and no longer own a windows computer.

  •  NauticalNoodle   ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 
    2•18 days ago

    DOS/Win3.1 I was pretty young. It was far back enough that it was still common to find Apple II’s in my grade-school classrooms off to the side for when we had downtime. I regret that I was just a little too young to experience the Commodore 64 craze.