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What was your first distro? (piefed.world)
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Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol

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[โ€“] forgetful_fox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mandrake 9.2 (before the Mandriva rebranding)

[โ€“] themadcodger@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

Same with Mandrake, though I can't remember what version number.