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[–] eluminx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Windows 95, Knoppix and Mandrake Linux.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whatever Commodore 64 ran, back when I was a little kid in the early 90s.

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[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

MS-DOS 5 or 6. I guess technically I used whatever Apple IIes had, first, but really I just loaded games from disk.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago

DOS. Not sure what version, I was far too young to care. But not so young I couldn’t learn how to operate a command line interface!

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Windows 3.11

[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First OS: MS-DOS, I reckon around v3 - was running on an IBM XT PC.

First Linux distro: Slackware, came on a CD-ROM on the front of a PC magazine.

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[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

MS DOS v4.somthing. (1995)

Slackware that came on three 5.25" floppies. (1997)

First hard drive Linux: Debian.

Eventually red hat for several years, then back to Debian based (mint etc) around 2005. Been using Sid (Debian "unstable") for a long time.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

DOS -> win95 -> win98 -> debian (and i'm still here 24 years later...)

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

If you could call it an OS, ZX spectrum basic was my first. My first Linux was Slackware 6 or 7 installed from a string of floppies. Good times.

C64 -> MS-DOS 3 -> 4DOS -> Win 95 -> Win 2000 -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> chaotic smattering of various distros that changed almost weekly -> Mint -> Arch -> Manjaro -> MXLinux -> SteamOS (SteamDeck), Rasbian.

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Windows 98, Windows XP, Ubuntu 6.06, some other distros on and off, Arch Linux is the last OS I would ever need for desktop PC btw

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

PC-DOS on an IBM 5150 (iirc).

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

my first was windows for workgroups 3.11 with msdos 6.22 back in 1994; later upgraded to windows 95.

my first linux as mandrake linux (aka mandriva) in 2002 on kernel 2. i use linux fulltime now and no longer own a windows computer.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. 2007. I was looking for new and exotic ways to avoid writing papers.

[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Comodore 64 os in the late 80's then msdos, win 3.1, etc. First Linux distro i believe was either slackware or debian.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

First operating system was DOS 4 or 5, I think. On big 5.25” floppy disks on an 8088. Unless we’re counting whatever was running on a commodore vic20.

My first Linux distribution was Red hat Linux, somewhere around 1997, 1998 and I had a really tough time getting it installed.

I also once had a trial version of os/2 warp. Which was fun but pointless.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

There's a few things from dos that have a permanent place my soul. A:/KEEN.exe, idkfa, iddqd and gorillas.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

DOS/Win3.1 I was pretty young. It was far back enough that it was still common to find Apple II's in my grade-school classrooms off to the side for when we had downtime. I regret that I was just a little too young to experience the Commodore 64 craze.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

First OS was Windows XP and first Linux distro was Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS), but on my main computer the first distro I used regularly was Ubuntu

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

First OS was C64's Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 GEOS, if that even counts as an OS, the next was Amiga 500's AmigaOS

First Linux distro was Fedora

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Windows 1998 on a Pentium2. First linux distro was Ubuntu, uh....8.04 I think ? That was much later.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Whatever an Apple IIe ran. Some sort of DOS from what I remember.

[–] the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

First linux distro was Ubuntu but I used it in VM but the actual daily driver was Archlinux. I think Windows XP was the first OS which i used on computer(In home sure but in school maybe it was Windows 97?)

Windows β†’ Mint β†’ Windows β†’ Void β†’ NixOS

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

First OS: MS-DOS 5

First Linux (many years later): Yellow Dog on one of those dome-shaped iMacs with the PPC chips

[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

First OS windows 95 First linux distro ubuntu Currently manjaro, windows 11, macos

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Macintosh System 7. Then I moved to Windows 98, which was the style at the time.

[–] muddybulldog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Commodore ROM BASIC; 1980

[–] Null@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

First OSish was what came default with the Commodore 64. My first full fledged OS was Windows 3.11. My first Linux distro was Mandrake I think 6.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

First OS: DOS 4.something on dad's PCXT clone.

First Linux: Kurumin Linux

[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

CP/M on a Kaypro II. My uncle was a contractor for the US air force. Even had a modem - a wooden box he built to hold a telephone handset.

Fun times.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The first one I remember using was good old Windows 98.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

First os was whatever was on a apple II. First linux was fedora. I spent 9 years using various red hat disteos as my main work machine.

Gaming kept me on windows at home. Now that proton let's me game i've been running mint debian for over a year and loving it.

My wife uses arch btw.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

School: if it wasn’t a Macintosh Plus it was something like it. We were given very little time with it and had to go to a special computer room to use them so I don’t remember a lot of specifics about it, beyond the school tech guy having to painstakingly load each program we wanted to use manually from a floppy

Home: Windows 3.1. I don’t think we got the internet until Windows 95, though

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Microsoft Extended BASIC

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Technically (but only very technically as we basically never used them and they were obsolete at the time already) it would have been a version of Acorn MOS but realistically it was Windows 3.1.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago

First operating system was probably either Windows 98 or Windows 2000. First Linux operating system was Ubuntu 10.10.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Windows '95. My mom didn't know the concept of backwards incompatibility and got it second hand in 2001. It was hard to find something that would run on it beyond Doom.

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