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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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[–] christopher@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It was Ubuntu. Can't remember which version but at the time they would mail you a cd if you requested one.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Same for me.

A friend in high school gave me one of these CD, I think it was 7.04.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Same here, though I remember it was 08.04 Hardy Heron for me. I still recall the default background too: