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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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[–] AClockworkOrangeRoughy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

This was mine as well. I then moved on to Mandriva and then Mageia off and on. Mageia 9 has been good. Some of the earlier versions not so much. Thinking of trying OpenMandriva next.