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[–]worm 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Newfag here.

First experience with Linux was installing running live USB of Linux Mint just a year ago. Moved on from there to Fedora, hoping to eventually move on to Debian once I have the time to figure out how to get the WiFi to work.

[–]Vulphere[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good luck!

[–]useless_aether 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

installing rh from 40 floppies

[–]ikidd 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I used to build ipchains firewalls for SMB customers out of cheap or used desktops before there were things like Linksys or Dlink hardware firewalls. I'd just build from a scratch kernel with appropriate options, and I'd buy boxes of NE2K network cards because that was the only reliable network driver at that time.

Then I went full Microsoft for a bunch of years because I was running an MSP, and came back to it only a few years ago when Windows 8 pissed me off.

[–]happysmash27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My stepfather uses Linux, and slowly I moved more and more towards using Linux until finally installing Gentoo on my only PC at the time, a MacBook, after making OS X like Linux began to reach its limits.

[–]Thraex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

First taste was messing around with Ubuntu in 2011(?), only clicked around for maybe a day and got bored. Then a little over a year ago a linux sys admin spot opened up where I worked so I jumped on it. Got the LPIC1 and planning to take my RHCSA very soon

[–]Vulphere[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good luck with your RHCSA.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sometimes Knoppix live discs came with my dad's computer magazine, and I always tried them out. That must have been way before 2010, I believe. Didn't use it Linux full time until Windows 8 came out and my laptop really didn't like it (kept BSODing and I also had to put it in standby mode after booting and then turning it on again until the display worked, it was just a blank screen otherwise).