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)

    • desconectado@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      2 年前

      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.

    • fouc@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      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.

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 年前

    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.

  • astroturds@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    2 年前

    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.

    • stroep@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      Oh, and writing the XConfig file with all your monitor timings. Sweet memories…

  • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 年前

    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@kbin.social
      1·
      2 年前

      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.

  • Grumpybumblebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 年前

    Linux 0.2, not.joking. a friend came with it to me, just downloaded from a newsgroup (I think) around 1992, on a floppy! We tested it on my PC, didn’t know what to do with it, and promptly removed it. A few years later we gave it another try, and the rest is history