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What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My first OS was most likely DR DOS 3.41

For my daily driver desktop PCs that was followed by

MS-DOS 5.0
Windows 3.11
Windows 98 SE
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 10

On the linux side, I got started with Gentoo, experimented with several lightweight distributions for an old laptop and had a Mint VM for a few years. These days I run Ubuntu on a couple of servers and in WSL. Never got around to using it as my main desktop OS.

For university I had (in order) an iBook G3, a MacBook and a MacBook Pro, so you can add most of macOS 10.x to that list.