Are there any linux users here, am i asking this in wrong community ?, If yes then sorry

Anyways the first linux for me was kali linux, I was a hopeless kid who wanted to learn hacking, and as everyone thinks linux is for hackers i just did some random google search about “Best linux distro for hacking” and the result was kali linux (since parrot os was not there at the time)

I watched a tutorial on how to install it, and that’s where it got worse. We didn’t have that much data to download a 3-4GB of iso file, so i went to a nearby friend to use their wifi and downloaded it. When I was installing it I selected the partition in which we stored all our family photos and other memories ( At the time I didn’t knew much about partitions and just wanted to try out linux). As I selected the wrong partition the windows installed on that partition and the files got deleted and I got into Kali linux, it took me some time to realise what I have done, but eventually I realised that many files were missing and was not able to boot into windows. Eventually I got scolded so much from my parents, but I don’t regret it because that opened up a new world of linux for me (but with some sacrifices)

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      Mine was also mandrake in the early 2000’s. There was no Ubuntu back then, and Mandrake was the “home desktop” for Linux, specially if you didn’t need servers running. I think it worked fine, not sure why it got so much hate.

    • foucEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yay another Mandrake user! I actually bought the box from a computer store back in 2003. Mandrake was actually a decent effort for a user friendly distribution and the standard installation included tons of software. Getting pppd to connect that serial ISDN modem to the internet for the first time was magical. I’ve been a Linux user ever since. The other main alternatives at the time were Debian, Slackware both too complicated for a newbie.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    It was no distro, it was kernel 0.99 and bunch of gnu utils on like 8 floppy disks, and 10 more floppies or so for X11. I was running it on a 486DX50 iirc.

  • blankmindEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    A friend of mine gave me an official Ubuntu 4.10 CD and that was my first Linux distro that I have tried.

    I still have that CD.

    • IHeartBadCode
      1•1 year ago

      Same. I pulled a copy originally from CLEVNET that had a local mirror of CWRU ftp at the Cleveland Public Library. I believe it was 2.3, I know it was while they were still on a.out before the swap to ELF.

      Don’t forget to read your install.end files.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    Ubuntu. I couldn’t afford a new laptop for college so I desperately googled for some way to make my old machine last.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    Mandrake 7 was the first one I installed on my pc. In those days you could buy a boxed version with about 10 cds to install from.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-dieEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Slackware was my second, version 3 or 4 was the first I used, I don’t remember what year it was, but I’ve learned so much from it.