Prove youre an OG, State your distro couz

Mint!

... alright, go ahead and shoot.

Arch, but not fully installed. Just persistently in installation process.

Opensuse TW KDE

Debian 12

It's just so good

Slackware.

D - to the E - to the ma' fuckin' BIAN

Puppy Linux, baby cuz I got that dawg in me!

First? Mandrake.

Now? Debian.

Ubuntu actually. I hated Ubuntu for a long time, until there was a game which only ran on Ubuntu. And now, after installing it, I'm actually pretty impressed and like it a lot. Yaru is a very good-looking theme, and the customizations Ubuntu made to stock GNOME are actually pretty logical (like adding windows buttons). It has among the best documentation and package support in the whole Linux universe. I'm a guy who likes to tinker, but for whom it is more important that the PC runs well, and I haven't encountered a single problem with Ubuntu yet - no kernel panic, no weird Bluetooth stuff, no apps which don't run for some reason,...

Everything just works. And that makes me happy. So Ubuntu it is.

Endeavour, fixing issues is easy enough.

Yes I have the arch logo as a wallpaper of my PC and my phone why do you ask?

Recently switched to NixOS.

Opensuse. Screw all the haters, it just werks (except for codecs needing to be installed and some minor fiddling)

Nobara: Fedora "Gaming" KDE

GNU Guix where even geeks are G

Debian 12

Kubuntu, because I did the "hard"-distro-to-show-off thing with Gentoo 20 years ago and can't be bothered anymore.

Depends on the machine.. Debian, arch, and fedora

Debian. Always have, always will

Um...

Manjaro (Stable) with Plasma 6 (and broken Oxygen icons).

I plan to merge those icons with GNOME icons... which are also partial, but I am too lazy. I like their early 2010s 3D look, but currently nearly half my icons are just missing.

I should be able to just rsync them together I hope and name it something else. Then also rsync the default Breeze icons as a last resort. I should be able to do that with --ignore-existing I think.

Fedora Kinoite The Future Is Now, Old Man😎

I'm far from OG, unless you count my dad's SUSE that I "used" as a child for a while. I fondly remember SuperTux. But I didn't really interact with the system much beyond starting games or a browser.

Later (about six years ago, I think) I started dual-booting Ubuntu as a side piece for productive stuff while gaming on Windows. Gradually tried gaming on Linux too, then made the jump to Linux (Ubuntu) exclusive late 2021.

Since a recent PC upgrade, I've used an additional disk to try Nobara and am happy with it so far. I've now got a spare disk and more time to try new distros, so I plan to explore the distroverse some more, but all in all I'd consider myself more of a newcomer or at best a resident than an OG.

Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.

Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times... A boot diskette and a root diskette.

Red Hat 4, father say me down on one of his Frankenstein computers built out of his trash heap in our basement and told me to have fun. I found tux racing konquest and played the shit out of them

My first distro was Slackware 4. Now that I'm old and don't got time for that, I'm running Linux mint on my main PC, 2 raspberry pi OS, and Ubuntu LTS for a Minecraft server.

NixOS, surprised nobody mentioned it

Puppy Linux 4.20 in a pentium 3 laptop.

Current distro of choice is just bunsenlabs.

Arch🗿

Redhat 5.1. I had no idea what I was doing.

I use void because I liked the name

Because no one mentioned it here: tuxedoOS! Ubuntu based, so its stable, with nice and tested KDE packages

Debian Busta!

Corel. You all are too young.

Historically, Debian.

Right now, openSUSE.

Garuda

Grew up in red hat- you know? Back when red hat wasn’t the enemy.

Endeavor is my flavor of the month. (Why pick one?)

Mint + xfce

Im pretty glad I got to hear him speak in person.

Slackware back in '05 to '09 stopped for a whIle and i just got back Into it. Currently distro hopping the BSDs and fiddling with gentoo, and Guix, trying to set up A reproducible system that doesnt use systemd and offers good wine and vm support with an Openbsd firewall/router and nas setup.

Usually Chad VoidLinux because it avoids the Unix-philosphy ignoring piece of garbage systemD but now I'm trying NixOS

Time to shoot the newbie. First used Ubuntu 20.04 in 2022. It was a necessity at the time on that shitty laptop and I had never used Linux before. Wouldn't go back to using that distro or laptop ever again since I have upgraded.

#!++ just to be too cool for school

Debian 2.2 "Potato" on a stack of floppies. If one was corrupted, you had to reimage it, and hope the download was good or you'd be sitting and waiting for a while.

Debian :)

First boot was MKLinux. Before there were books about Linux in book stores. I had no idea how to login.

Kubuntu

OpenSUSE Aeon

OpenSUSE Aeon

Started on the 'buntu in 2005 or 2006. Distro hopped for a decade until I found Solus. That had some dark times a few years ago but seems to be back now but I moved to Debian anyway. Feels right.

Knoppix in like 2006! The first one I installed was Fedora Core 4 though, my mom got disks for it and rhel in her school textbooks.

Now I use Arch on most things.

Wubuntu

I started with some UMSDOS-based "full X11 desktop in 5 floppies" distro on a 486, then went through Slackware, RedHat 5 with glibc breakage, actually bought a SuSE boxed set in the 7.x era, mostly stuck with Slackware unril I realized I wanted stuff like Steam and perhaps some degree of dependency resolution is nice. Bounced off of Arch (the AUR is a terrible concept IMO) and ended up on Void, which gives me Slackware-like vibes, but a little more built for broadband instead of CD images. Been trying Debian Sid latrly, just because I put it on my new laptop and I figured I'd go consistent, but I'm not sure I'm sold. Everything works, but even for an "unstable", the packages are dated and I dislike systemd on principle.

Started out with mint back in the codec days. Now use Aurora at work , Bazzite at Home

Fedora on lappy 486, Nobara dual boot on compy 386.

Might pick something else for compy though. Don't really game on it with Linux since my games are Windoze only (iRacing)

Debian 2.x (don't remember exactly) was my first attempt. But I don't actually count that because after annoying driver troubles (networking and mouse) and having to recompile the kernel multiple times I unfortunately lost interest.

Tried again with Debian 8 on my laptop and stuck with it until I moved 100% Linux just a couple of years ago thanks to Valve/Proton.

Is that Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant?

First: SUSE 9.1.

Current: Arch

Flaked NixOS unstable

I'm using Arch Linux as my daily driver, my previous distro was Void for quite a while. After Void I tried out Fedora but I hated . Right now I'm testing Guix on a virtual machine too

Qubes OS.

first distro was Linux Mint as far as I remember, but the first distro after I actually learned why linux is good was ZorinOS

EndeavourOS, best one I've used yet.

Mabox.

Started with OpenSuse, then Mandrake, then looong time Debian, now back to OpenSuse TW

Void! I used arch btw for quite a while, but then decided to switch and I don't regret nothing... Except the docs, the docs aren't very good. I'm also running debian 12 on my home server, and it has been a good experience

In the beginning, i used mint, then i used arch for a while, now im chilling comfortably with a dual boot of bazzite/arch. bazzite for the gaming setup, arch for the work setup.

I use a distro that describes perfectly my will to live - Void Linux

I've tested Ubuntu (before they switched to the Unity interface), played a lot around Linux Mint, including dual booting. I ultimately settled on Manjaro. I do still occasionally test out other distros with virtual machines, such as Debian, Trisquel, and Zorin.

mxlinux, manjaro, and openmediavault