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>>55383072
I actually got into Linux thanks to my Electronics professor. He used to run Debian Stable with KDE4.
There was this schematic emulator called "KtechLab" and it was truly amazing. So I installed Ubuntu 10.04.
Few years later I came to /g/ and realised windows is garbage.
Now I run Ubuntu in both laptop and homeserver. Windows 7 in my virtual machine for office related tasks
>>55383072
Tried Ubuntu8.something, windows software didn't work so gave up, got curious again and tried Ubuntu 12.10, gave up again because games didn't work or didn't work well(except halo ce and totala which were both great), installed Fedora 22, tried a bunch of DEs, stuck with MATE for familiarity and been using Fedora on my old hp laptop since then.
Got a d2550 board off a mate, installed Ubuntu mate on it and it runs great, but I still use my desktop for games.
2 Linux PCs and one windows pc still being used. Only reason I keep the windows pc is video games, everything else I do on Linux or my phone
>made a thread asking for help removing a virus or something
>"install gentoo"
>no fucking clue what gentoo is i just google it and follow some wikihow
>i follow step by step rather than reading it all at once
>format all drives
>oshitnigger.7z
>lost everything
>cant afford new copy of windows
>google "free operating systems"
>two options 'linux' or 'free windows'
>nice try, pajeet
>i installed mint
Thats about it
>Uni professors are a bunch of Stallman worshipping FOSS loving commies.
>Now I'm one too.
>>55383072
>start browsing /g/ in 2012
>/g/ talks about linux
>look into it some
>windows 7 gets fucked up somehow
>on shitty internet
>download 650mb Ubuntu iso or torrent 3gb windows 7 iso
>choose former, install
>go back and forth eventually since can't get used to linux
>end up learning more and using it full time
I think I read about it somewhere around the age of 13. The PC magazine I was reading at the time had a special on Linux a year later which got me kinda into it but I never managed to make it my main operating system even though I wanted to. Years later I got tired of using shared webhosting and just rented a VPS not knowing wtf to do but just went with it. Got used to the CLI because of that. Fast forward a few more years and had to use fucking Ruby on Rails and noticed how shit using it was on Windows so I installed Mint and got used to using Linux as a desktop OS and made it my main OS half a year later.
>>55383072
My father has brought it to my attention.
I watched him how he first installed it from a CD in a magazine. He used it for some time, while I played some of the preinstalled games in it. After few days he gave up and went back to Windows, because it couldn't "help him in his professional life" (Later on I tried to convince him to jump ship Linux. He still uses XP ("the last great Windows version") and he still refuses to try a LiveCD)
In the time, I wanted to try it and installed Ubuntu 6.10. It was shit. Driver support was shit, etc. I went back to Windows XP and stayed with it.
Few years later, I didn't wanted to install Vista and knew that XP will die. Therefore I tried to install OpenSuse. It worked for me. Later on I also tried to Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware and Fedora, etc. while I also used Win7 (better than Vista).
After Windows 8/10 debacle (surveillance, Metro), I mostly use Linux (settled with ArchLnux), although I still sometime dualboot to Windows, when Wine doesn't work.
Circa 2001.
Buy computer.
Immediatley start examining all the directories.
Have computer completely fucked in a week.
Take it back to reinstall windows.
By week 2 I've discovered regedit and bios.
Computer completely fucked and back for reinstall.
Rinse and repeat about 2 or 3 more times.
Finally ask How hard is it to reinstall windows yourself?
Guys look at each other a second...Not hard. Just google it.
3 seconds later one guy says, Why don't you try linux?
What's linux? I respond.
Go on distrowatch, check the top distros if you are too lazy to do an advanced search to find the one that suits you the best. Go to the official Distro website, check it out, try to see what you are getting into, once you make up your mind you just download the iso, burn it on a CD/DVD or make it a bootable flash drive (just use unetbootin or lili), then just boot it up and follow the instructions for the install process as you would for Windows, except this time is Linux, no big deal.
>>55383072
Went to University for Japanese language. Pretty quickly I started goofing off and got put on academic suspension and had to get a job to hold me over for a year.
I took a job as a mall cop stuck with it for some time. Started going back to school part time. During that period realized I enjoyed assembling computers and setting up networks.
Found a job with presales group for Cisco. Guy in my training found out I had a bunch of spare (older) parts lying around and asked why I didn't just build Linux boxes. So I did. Started with Ubuntu Edgy Eft until I felt like it was a little too heavy for me (and I wanted to learn more). I switched to Debian (and tried a few others for fun, like Gentoo, Suse, Mandriva) and stuck with it. Cisco gave way to working for Netgear's ProSupport team right before they rolled out the ReadyNAS line, which were Debian based. So I got moved to that team as I was one of the only team members with Linux experience.
Not long after I got recruited to help start a Tier 1 monitoring and response team for an e-commerce group that was mostly Solaris.
After about 3 years I spun that into actually working for the e-commerce team.
While working for them I helped with the shift from 90% Solaris/10% RHEL to 80% RHEL/20% Solaris.
It was interesting to be the young guy amongst Unix greybeards helping guide how to migrate to RHEL 6.
Personal life I still run Debian (and Ubuntu Mate for a not-serious-use laptop). At work RHEL 5, 6 and a 2 Ubuntu boxes (used for collaboration, mostly.)
>>55383556
>>>/regedit/
~2010, using netbook for college. Has WinXP. Reinstalled windows since it was being a piece of shit.
Continued being piece of shit. Knew about da lenucks, so I went with ubuntu. Got the job done, got familiar with it. Ran a little slow on the netbook, but much better at multitasking.
Few months go by, friend of mine goes "hurr u shud use Arch"
Installed Arch on main machine. Year later, have it on all my machines. Had a learning curve, but very familiar with it now. I use windows at work but could never use it as a main OS on one of my PCs again.
>>55383072
Do I look like a bitch?
Boredom.
>>55383072
I don't remember how I initially found out about it but I remember my first time using Linux was when I was 11 or 12 and installed Arch on some old Gateway in the basement. My dad flipped out because it turns out he had work documents on it and for years after it would upset him if I so much as mentioned Linux.
After installing Arch I installed Puppy because I liked the name, then pulled an old server out of the garage, maxed the specs with other parts from servers that were in the garage (ended up with a P4, ~3GB RAM, and an 80GB HDD), and installed Ubuntu. Distrohopped for a few years after 11.x came out and they dropped GNOME 2, then switched to OS X when I got an iMac G3 at a rummage sale and found out all those years I made fun of it were just blind preteen hatred
>>55383813
You look like an indian
>First OS ix Win95 / 98
>Use XP all my childhood
>Embrace Win7. Click with it like someone would immediately click with their life's perfect woman
>Use Win7 through all my teenage years
>Never try Vista
>Eventually try Ubuntu out of curiosity
>"It's cool I guess, but useless"
>Never try Win8
>Try Ubunto or other ubuntu based distros again
>"Yeah this is cool but I don't really need this and it's a hassle to install literally anything"
>Never try Win8.1
>Go to College, Computer Engineering
>Seriously need Linux now
>Dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu, like everyone else in faculty, boring shit
>Win10 comes around
>Fuck this shit
>Install FUCKING ARCH LINUX
>Nigga what the fuck are you doing
>YOLO
>Learn new stuff every single fucking day
>Even muh gaymes work
>Never look back
Windows 10 decided to one day lock me out of some of my apps (calculator, photos, and some others) and force me to make some stupid Microsoft account and enable some shitty protection software that I didn't need because I'm not 100 years old. I got fed up and went to Ubuntu just recently. It was a good decision.
- tried few times linux never sticked with it, only sitting there never booting to it
- there was announcement that edx will have certified introduction video course and I planned to follow that
- it was announced like 6 months ahead, so went sooner for it and actually installed it
- ubuntu 2 days, mint 4 days, opensuse 3 months, archlinux since then
- with arch I went from kde, xfce, until arriving to i3wm
- cant imagine switching to windows ever again, feeling in control, pc does what I expect it to do
never actually did that edx course, by the time it started I already was fooling around in arch and was comfortable
Was using Windows ten. Often had to change audio device via control panel. Used to search sound to do this faster. Windows was always annoying and non intuitive to me but this next thing pushed me over the edge. The search results for sound stopped brining up the relevant part of control panel. Search wouldn't work at all. After several minutes searching my windows would present the top result as sound.mp3 which I'd never heard before. Only way to correctly get search to display the sound settings is to search "sund".
I couldn't do it, I wiped my drives and installed kubuntu no regrets.
>>55383072
I remember I saw a video of some riced desktops with the compiz "desktop cube" effect. I was 15 at the time. I think that's what made my install the thing.
I used it for quite a while and I can't remember why as I didn't knew how to program back then, I guess it made teenager me feel like a h4x0r or some bs like that.
It wasn't until several years later that I came back to it in college. Today it's my primary tool for work.
Funny thing, I never got any of those fancy compiz effects to work.
>>55383072
>2002
>bored teen trying to be cool
>download "SUSE Linux", burn it onto 6 CDs and label them accordingly
>mother finds CDs and asks if I'm downloading dirty "SUSE" porn
>never install it
>2006
>bored teen again
>hear about Ubuntu
>install it and somehow break GRUB
>don't know how to repair and too lazy to reinstall windoze
>forced to use Ubuntu for couple of weeks before "muh games"
>2007-2012
>casually dualbooting into Ubuntu
>2013
>try Mint with Cinnamon
>use it as primary OS
>2015
>switch over to Antergos because of "muh bleeding edge" and "muh AUR"
>>55383072
I was searching for virus free OS a few years ago and linux came up as a result. I tried linux mint and was fascinated by the OS.
>be me
>going to classes for certifications and shit
>see smartest kid use Arch linux i3
>blewmymind.jpg
>Decide to try out on laptop
>Uses ubuntu
Thats where it all started, and boy was it a ride, especially with my old laptop, corrupting the hard drive every month or so. Now I have an X220 running Arch because /g/ told me to.
Started out when my cousin was running Ubuntu 7.04, which was a pretty nice OS. I installed it too for a while, mainly used it for web browsing and retro gaming. I've still primarily been using Windows for most of the time since but I am more and more using Linux as my main system. Over the years I've used 2 or 3 other versions of Ubuntu, Mint, and Arch. Currently running two VPSs with CentOS on them, and about to reinstall Arch on my most powerful computer to use as a home server and computer for most things other than gaming. Gonna use it as a file/backup server, torrent box, maybe a media center, maybe a build server for any software I develop, and who knows what else.
I actually bought this thing and it came with Ubuntu. Not bad for the time.
>>55383072
>It twas back in the year 2007 AD
>windows vista had just been released and i purchased a new toshiba satellite laptop
>the laptop came with only 512mb of ram and was not enough to run vista
>i then purchased a copy of windows xp home edition and installed it on the laptop
>everything worked fine except my graphics card drivers were made for vista and wouldn't work on XP
>getting pretty pissed i started searching tech related forums for alternative systems
>someone recomended i try a system called PClinuxOS
>what tis this Linux? i wondered
>after following the instructions from the forum i burnt the iso to a digital video disc and proceeded to boot from it
>it started up and looked similar to windows and i liked that right away
>drivers seemed to work out of the box surprisingly
>start hanging out in the PClinuxOS IRC
>Mr Textstar himself taught me how to enable Beryl (this was before compiz) and put snow and fire on the desktop
>it twas such a wonderful time
>ever since then i have always tinkered with Linux
>>55383356
>>55383072
>Get into networking because certs = better paying job meme
>get job at ISP
>Every device is lunix
>think I'm smart because I can do Cisco
>accidentally break device in first couple weeks
>realize i'm dumb and try to learn about linux so that I don't break shit and loose my job
>still don't know shit about linux
>the more I learn about tech the more I realize I don't know shit
I honestly just mess around with linux on my spare time at home as well. Nothing fancy, I'm still a beginner.
When I was a kid I had Damn Small Linux on a disc for when my computer got a virus and I had to get data off the drive before reformatting. Had no idea what I was doing or what I was using.
Took a Unix class in Uni. The first lecture we installed whatever flavor of Linux we wanted. I got Fedora. He had us immediately switch to tty2 and we never touched a GUI the whole class. I installed Linux on my home machine immediately after that first lecture and can't force myself to use Windows now. It is like flying an airplane on autopilot with Windows - you are still flying and the technology is impressive but sometimes you want a smaller plane that you can really fly.
>>55383072
I decided I wanted a basic, cheap, low-power home server. I tried Windows Server too, but I didn't like it and IIRC the version I had only ran on 64b hardware while I had a mobo with an integrated Atom CPU that had a BIOS with 32b support only. It also couldn't run off of a SD/CF card, so I just took the plunge and installed Ubuntu Server. In the end it worked very well, though I have a more powerful server now and it runs Debian jessie instead.
>Windows 8.
>Install ubuntu
>touch screen laptop is broken so random clicks
Where's the option to disable the touchscreen like on windows?
>have to mess with .conf file
>finally get it to work
Ok now time to open pdf
>Ok let me just learn sudo commands to install basic programs
>No adobe reader and pdf readers available are shit
Uninstall
First experience was with a raspberry pi last year with debian. I run Ubuntu on my laptop now. Best decision ever.
>>55383072
>1998
>windows breaks everything
>use suse live disk
>make install
no ragrets
I bought a Chromebook and heard you can customize ChromeOS and run a separate operating system on it if you throw it into developer mode.
From there i learned how the terminal works, how to use ubuntu and what different DE's were
now i run it on everything just because i dislike windows, the lack of customization is what drove me to go from windows to linux, where i can customize everything
>>55383072
Had a PC with windows XP. Ran like complete shit. Heard about how Ubuntu was the new Linux for people wanting to get away from windows. So I backed up everything to an external. formatted the desktop, and installed Ubuntu. Bit of a learning curve at first but once I adjusted, I was impressed at how shit just werked. Then Valve gave it Steam support. After that, i started using windows in a VM if i really had to have it.
>didn't like how windows 8 looked
>browsing for custom themes
>notice some look 1000% better than the rest
>howdotheydothis.jpg
>its gnu/Linux
>try Ubuntu 14.04
>love it
>>55385786
>where's the option to disable the touchscreen like windows?
It's not Windows. Stop thinking all operating systems work the same.
You could've just installed Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Center to install programs.
And what features do you need exactly that are available in AR and not in any of those other readers?
>2010 desktop threads on /b/
>Some ubuntu desktops
>Confused.jpg, what's that?
>Didn't care
>2 weeks later while searching for how to hack wifi on google
>Wepcrack gui on Ubuntu
>That ubuntu thing again
>Ok. Let's try that
I'm here using Debian full time
Installed Ubuntu, because I wanted to have a 3D cube-desktop
>>55383072
I just took the habit of installing Ubuntu to help me out when Windows would fail to boot.
Good old Linux. You'll always be my slut on the side for when the wife isn't cutting it.
>be around 12 in 1999
>aol h4x0r and AIM spammer
>looking for leet aol exploits, and cracking methods, phishing and cracking HOST accounts, and lobby chats for unlimited trolling, spamming, and dialup access
>friend from school teaches me vb6
>hanging out at his house, see redhat book
>he gives me a copy
loved computers all my life, got a computer in 1998, loved it, played lots of games, windows 98se, upgraded computer as kid, parents loved me (i was family IT at like 10yo), heard about other OS got ubuntu like 2002, played tetris, liked it a lot... years later sick of MS spying on me, being a POS, switched to linux...
now a sysadmin will so many servers, using windows on workstation but just for testing really all servers linux i love my life. fuck windows
>>55386113
you are a nigger
my nigger
ily <3 im your nigger too
I played with Linux a bit on my own, but had no idea what I was doing beyond opening random programs on whatever distro I'd download and put on a live CD/USB
My first full-time programming job, all of the developers used Linux, so I pretty much had to adapt or die. Took me some practice to get into it. Now I'm decent enough around the command line to debug and fix most problems at my current job. Feels good
>>55386201
I <3 U 2
We had a couple computers through the 90s. I remember using an early Mac OS (System 6 maybe,) Windows 95 and 98.
In 1999 or 2000 my brother bought Red Hat Linux from Electronics Boutique. I want to say Red Hat Linux 6. Came in a box like this. He installed it, I played around with it, but never did anything in depth. I think I was 13 at the time. I didn't know how to use bash or anything.
About ten years later I was going to community college for CS. I was tired of using Windows, and curious about trying a different OS in general, so I switched to debian. It was more of a learning exercise than anything else.
>>55386269
>>55386178
that's exactly what I got started on.
>>55383072
I had a little experience with Unix systems (DEC Alphastation running OpenVMS) at work but I knew just enough to be dangerous. I was fine with Windows for personal use and most of my tech troubleshooting skills were in the MS world, not to mention that was when I was younger and played a lot of games.
About 4 years ago I built a desktop and decided to get off the MS teat. I didn't care for Windows 7 and IIRC that was slightly before Daz Loader (or I just didn't know about it). Installed Mint 13 and used it for a little while and eventually found Debian. That stuck, haven't looked back.
I had a shitty netbook years back and decided to give Xubuntu a go, ended up keeping it along with 7 installed. Same setup on my T420 now, except with Fedora instead of Xubuntu.
>>55383072
When I was in Highschool my vista laptop took a major shit while I was taking notes in my Computer Systems class, I was devastated because I couldn't get my computer to work, so my teacher took my laptop and installed Kubuntu 7.10 on my machine, this was my freshman year, the next 3 involved me jumping around from distro to distro, once KDE 4 released and replaced KDE 3.5 I hated KDE and tried various distributions and just said fuck it and put up with KDE 4, enter my Freshman year of college I stumbled upon Trinity Desktop Environment. I had a few good semesters with it then decided to give KDE 5 a shot fucking hated it. Now I am using Ubuntu GNOME edition and I am happy with it. I do miss the old KDE 3 days sometimes though.
>be me
>discover /g/
>everyone uses linux
>everyone shitting on windows
>want to fit in and feel superior
>install arch
>rice it the fuck out
>post in desktop threads
>make anti-windows posts and spam pajeet memes every day
>whine about botnet wanting me to starve
my life has greatly improved since installing linux
>>55386410
>OpenVMS
What were those for? There is an open source version I came across but didn't exactly told me what is was used for, just some random babling about real time systems.
>>55386597
We ran a couple of applications on it, with Windows-based terminal viewers on the workstations.
One dealt with banking/escrow account transactions. I guess in that situation, real time would make a difference. I just thought we used them because 64-bit RISC processing was hot shit ahead of its time back when they implemented it.
>>55383072
I used Lubuntu on my old 2006 pc for a while.
Everything worked great.
I fell for a g meme
>>55383072
Wifi drivers on my school issued laptop kept breaking. I installed Linux Mint 10, I think, and everything just werked out of the box.
Got sick of Microsoft's shit, and I installed Debian 6 on my desktop computer in my freshman year of university . I kept Mint on my laptop because I didn't know how to install wifi drivers on Debian
>Mom asks me to format her notebook and install ubuntu for whatever reason
>Go in vacations
>Stuck with the notebook
>Spend an entire day learning how to use apt-get
>Having a lot of fun with it
>Format windows and install ubuntu in my pc
>Go back to windows because muh visual novels and mpc-hc
>"Windows fucking sucks"
>Install arch
>Learn how to use qemu, wine and mpv
Thanks mom.
my harddrive failed and I didnt know how to torrent
>2007 (senior year of high school)
>computer breaks
>for some reason windows doesn't work (can't remember)
>however ubuntu does
>use ubuntu 8/10 for about 2-3 months
>mainly using it for instant messaging and basic internet browsing, youtube wasn't big at the time so flash wasn't an issue
>eventually get a MBP and abandon ubuntu
never went back (currently split between os x and w10), linux is garbage for desktop use
Used my EeePC 1000HE with WinXP during college. It could cope more or less (thanks in large part to a RAM upgrade) but W7 seemed out of reach. After graduation I had the freedom to tinker so along came Crunchbang. All of a sudden it ran like a dream.
My dad used it, and I decided to give it a try. I was hooked.
>>55386101
>getting this butthurt about someone still learning
>projecting defensively against imaginary Linux hate
>I promise Linux is as good as Windows
>basically every Linux user ever
Chill bro. Cool party. Ice to see you.
>>55384097
>mother finds CDs and asks if I'm downloading dirty "SUSE" porn
fucking american mothers i swear
>>55383072
I got into Linux through the GNU Operating System, 4chan in 2012 and the FSF. I had learned about Stallman through memes on here and looked at his speeches and ultimately agreed with him entirely, installed Debian GNU on my system with only free software installed and to my avail it was much higher quality and faster than the proprietary Wind*ws or shitty BSD shiny edition. I had used Android as my main Operating System on a mobile phone and the two things that GNU and Android had in common was Linux, Linux was used in everything, PS3, airplanes, GNU, Android, TV set top boxes and more. So I had started contributing code to Linux in early 2015 and have been writing free device driver replacements for the binary blobs in Linux. That's how I got into Linux
>>55383072
> 1997
> 16
> On parole for something not computer related
> Have a tendency to play the lines without violating them
> PO knows this and states that I am not allowed to use a computer running Windows or MacOS.
> Find Mandrake in book store for $10
> Install and run
> 2 months later PO comes over, sees computer (K6-2-450) and 2 monitors
> Tries to arrest me
> Step mom is attorney
> Points out that I'm not in violation of my release conditions
- Non computer completion to story -
> 2 weeks later get arrested for dirty UA (never did drugs, but had wisdom teeth removed, and had documentation
> Step mom files paperwork, I get released about 3 hours later
> 2 days later, I'm given an order of restraint against PO
> Step mom sues for wrongful arrest
> Win, get a few $$, PO looses job
Wow. That was 20 years ago. Fuck, I feel old now.
Actually I started to use Linux for shits and giggles
I guess Windows is the joke now
>>55387176
Thanks for your help contributing to Linux senpai.
>>55387233
jesus what did you do, im interested.
>>55387233
That PO really has the shits for you. I'm so glad to hear that your step mom was as good as she was.
>>55387329
Stole a car. Tried (and succeeded) to outrun the cop. It's true what they say, you can't outrun the radio. His backup picked me up about a mile later.
Pretty mundane, actually.
>>55387359
Yeah, yeah she did.
> step mom was as good as she was.
No shit. That was the end of my criminal career. Still can't get DoD clearance though because of it. Which is fine, really, as I don't want to be a senior Exchange engineer for "the cloud" anyway.
I'll stick with my low 6 figure salary and systems automation.
I bought a 64bit setup and realized Vista took 20 to 30 minutes to boot up and when I finally got it running it sucked balls, I moved over to Ubuntu to avoid XP's memory limitations and that ball sucking, now I use Linux Mint Cinnamon for my main PC and a second running Windows 7 for gayming and it never touches the internet because M$ security sucks balls.
>be 13 year old me
>want to experiment with running a website
>learns web-suite of languages with 000webhost.
>realize I want to run my own server
>realize I have to learn Linux
>Install CentOS and learn how to setup Apache
>Spend a few more years setting up various distros with Apache, Nginx, etc.
I also learned how to automate stuff with Ansible and Salt. Not a fan of Puppet and that disgusting syntax it has though.
My webserver ran Gentoo for a long time, however recently I took a dive into OpenBSD and its default httpd. It's bretty nice desu.
Winblows downgraded itself to winblows 10
Backup of winblows 7 got corruptes in some way
Got mad
Ask /g/
Avoided Ubuntu and Mint
Ended up using manjaro
Had hard time switching
/g/ told me to use it and nothing else for 1 week
Still have the win10 partition on my SSD but rarely use it
G N U
N N
U U
>install Windows 10 technical preview
>it's shitty
>I manage to break it because the start menu would not work sometimes, and there was no way to turn of the computer in these situations
>can't activate it after reinstalling
>download Arch
>can't get X to work on my old GPU
>go back to Vista
>download bridge Linux with lxde
>it werks
>spend some time getting pacman to work because the distro is outdated
>break it a couple of times, because I don't know what I'm doing, but finally I figured out that I need nouveau
It's comfy now, and I won't switch back to Windows.
Used DOS, Win95, Win98.
Then around the time XP came out, somebody showed me a Linux machine for the first time. Before I didn't even know it existed. I mean it sucked back then, but all PC desktops did. Also this was before I had fast Internet (not sure if such a thing even existed for normal people) and I took a CD-ROM of I think either Slackware (I think) with me.
Things got easier when Ubuntu came out. Then I used Debian for some time. Played around with siduction and eventually landed on Arch.
>>55383072
>be me, middle school
>start playing an old mmo game, create my server for friends
>run it on 700 mHz duron CPU
>everything lags
>"hey anon, I heard it's better on linux"
>order ubuntu 6.XX CD for free
>never switch back to windows again
>>55383072
I was around 13 yrs old and I heard about ubuntu on youtube or something similar.
About a year later I was using ubuntu server to host a counter strike server at home..
I always wanted to improve my counter strike server. This lead to me following guides on installing the RT kernel and eventually switching to Gentoo because some pro on the forums said you could squeeze out every last bit of performance.
My SSD failed and I didn't have a windows disc. so I used my phone to download mint(They said it was one of the best for windows users) booted from my SD card and installed Linux on a new SSD. I will probably dual boot when I get a windows disc I hated it at first but now I'm starting to like it.
>>55384097
>mother finds CDs and asks if I'm downloading dirty "SUSE" porn
She probably wanted some anon, why did you disrespect your mother
I started using it because I was poor and had far too much free time.
Since completing university I've stopped using it over than my file server which I plan on moving to FreeBSD and use MBP and Windows PC and W10 Phone as my every day computing.
>2011 Dad gives me some old HP netbook
>after 15 minutes WinXP boots up
>It's full of niggers and cocks
>download xubuntu and put it in usb stick
>install
>everything butters and expepson
>>55383356
>not keeping your windows cd key
>>55383072
>How did you get into Linux?
>Nobody is talking about the kernel
/g/ in a nutshell
When I was about 11 I saw someone using it. Since I pretty much only knew about Windows and Apple at the time I was pretty excited and got curious. Used only Linux from about 13 to 17, different distros though.
After that I returned to Windows for a while, since it made school much easier.
Now I use Linux Mint, Debian and Knoppix (and K/L-ubuntu for some older hardware) almost exclusively, except for when I "need" Windows.
In case that happens, two of my laptops have an additional windows installation, one 7, one 10.
Thinking about buying an old "cheap" MacBook and getting into BSD so I have experience using all major operating systems.
>>55383072
After hearing about it on /g/ a bunch of times,
I simply decided "oh what the hell" and went for it. (Ubuntu 7.10) I was pleasantly surprised.
Wanted to become hacker so I ran backtrack on a live cd, then dual booted it and I've switched around distros every couple of months since then.
I tried it and everything about it BTFO Windows except for games. The games I wanted to play worked in Wine so I stopped using Windows.
>>55383072
Only thing I miss in linux is photoshop. Everything works well. Yes, even office suit. I use WPS office which is the best office suit for linux which is actively maintained. Also MUH WINE fags please get lost and die. Fuck you.
>>55389113
thank god not everyone in /g/ is autistic retard homo
>>55389282
Wine-staging is much better. It comes with some experimental optimizations that can be toggled in winecfg. I had problems with osu on wine, but they disappeared on wine-staging.
>>55384097
>SUSE
ohhh took me a moment lol
I barely did. Someone said antergos is a good distro for beginners. Install it and the welcome screen had no users to click on. I didn't know how to use that shit at all. So I installed an untouched ISO of windows 7 again.
From that day on I never looked back
>>55389429
I actually don't use it anymore, Steam has enough native titles now.
>>55383072
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
I remember having major issues with Windows XP and ordering Slackware a long time ago (~15 years ago).
I got it installed, I think, and wiped out Windows. I didn't exactly do it right because I had nothing but the command prompt available to me and being to retarded to actually look anything up or reinstall Windows (no CD). It ended up going to local computer repair store and a couple hundred (fuck) dollars later came back with clean windows on it.
I do not miss being 11
>>55383072
I got sick of my fucking windows laptop shitting itself.
Installed this free Ubuntu operating system, figuring it would suck.
Worked.
Laptop ran better than it did on the Windows OS for which it was designed. Oddly enough - it was like the anti-meme of Linux. I no longer lost my WIFI connection unexpectedly. I could just print without Windows saying that I didn't have the driver installed (which I had installed several times).
Kept it until the old dell died.
Got a pretty good one from a few years back when I was in highschool. Basucally, I went to a highschool that offered a shit tonne of online courses so by the time I got to grade 12 I basically just sat in the library all day on my laptop because I didn't actually have any real classes, at the time I ran an HP potatop I got second hand from a family member and installed linux (Lubuntu, not that it's relevant, just for those who were curious) on it because it was such a piece of shit that it had trouble running windows. One day I got called down to the guidance office and I had no idea why, there was a fucking tonne of staff there (most of which I didn't recognize) and a fucking police officer, after a while of generic smalltalk bullshit they said - and I quote word for word "Some of the other students are afraid that you may be attempting to invade their personal devices, one of the students took this picture of your screen, what do you have to say for yourself?" So what was on my screen you ask? it was fucking command line. Nothing else. Just. Fucking. Command line.
>2004
>First PC (PIII with 384MiB RAM) with XP and no internet
>Bored and curious
>Run Ubuntu in VirtualBox (somehow it worked)
>
>2008
>Got laptop
>Install Ubuntu to avoid buying a Windows license
>Gnome is shit
>Pirate and install XP
>
>2010
>Hear about KDE, install openSUSE on external HDD
>Got used to it
>Dual boot
>
>2013
>Bought SSD, didn't install Windows again
>
>2015
>Get employed at linux-related company
>>55383072
>dad used knoppix back in the day
>always had linux live cd's laying around
>tried it, yeah pretty neat
>he still uses nothing more in-depth than mint, avoids the command line like the plague
>I use debian/arch, know my shit around the command line pretty well
>>55389821
good last point, I'll add it too mine >>55389822
>now working at a company who maintains/sets up/sells linux based e-commerce platforms
>2003
>just got a permanent internet connection
>32kbit/s feels godly compared to shitty 28kbps dial-up modem
>browsing around with IE6
>search for hacking, hackers, programming as was totally into that thing
>come across tech related forum
>guy in his 50's, balding head, creepy profile picture, signature filled with image banners, Top Contributor! badge, Linux user, etc
>lives 100 miles away from me
>offers to burn me a Live CD of Knoppix or something like that and deliver it to me
>day comes, he calls, we meet at the mall
>go there expecting to be raped
>didn't get raped at all
>gives me a live cd and a printout of a Word document that had basics covered
>we part ways as friends and he asks me to thank him in 10 years when getting to know Linux will score me a good job
>fast forward 2 weeks
>I've nuked the MBR, formatted the HDD and pretty much banned from using a computer again, because father lost all his files etc
>he angrily calls the forum guy
>he drives to our house, nobody gets molested, restores MBR, fixes the bootloader, it boots to Windows by default, I get my own Linux on a separate HDD(that I paid for with my own money by doing chores)
>dad's still pissed, but buys me a CD on how to program with C++ and MS Access
>discover Python instead and go with the FOSS
13 years later. Thank you Robert! I appreciate what you did. If it wasn't for you and your resilience to anger and stupidity, I guess I wouldn't be living in a comfy Amsterdam apartment with a good salary and the knowledge I have now. You put me on the right path.
>>55390131
Now that's a comfy story.
>>55383072
i had an old pc and had to make it work
At thirteen I wanted to learn more about computers but didn't know where to start. Played with the Windows terminal a bit and then came across GNU/Linux which was perfect for me. Started with Ubuntu, then Debian and then distro hopped for a while. Really liked the BSD's and they had us use Red Hat in school and then eventually landed myself with Gentoo. I'm still pretty intermediate and have a lot to learn but wth. A man spends his entire life learning.
>>55383072
>get sick of windows not allowing me to do what I want easily
>hear about about leenux
>see crunchbang, think it looks swell.
>can't get my optimus card working on stable move up to jessie
>hear about arch, seems like a fun challenge
>run that for god know who long
>read about portage, seems like the beezkneez
>install gentoo
>life is gud
Dad sys admin for linux servers. Run it at home.
only computer i could use.
used it a couple of years. Was shit because i didnt have root and couldnt play muh games
get a windows laptop
a few years down the line go back to linux bc of win 10
Never look back
>early 2005
>sick of Windows XP being a steaming pile of dogshit (why anyone considers it one of the "good" Windows releases is beyond me)
>had heard of this Linux thing before but don't really know anything about it
>start reading up on it, get intrigued by the idea of an open-source community-developed OS
>read up on popular distros
>somehow come to the conclusion that Fedora would be a good choice for me
>fucking nothing works
>get frustrated with it, nearly give up on Linux forever
>decide to give the new kid on the block, Ubuntu, a try
>everything works great, all is right with the world
I've been using Linux off and on since then. Tried all the major distros over the years, but Ubuntu is the one I keep going back to. It never quite replaced Windows for me, but it's a nice complement for machines that aren't meant to be gaming rigs.
>dad showed me knoppix when windows 98 kept crashing
>years later
>hard drive crashed, install new one
>didnt know how easy it was to pirate mac OS or windows
>install ubuntu 6.10 from free liveCD I got mailed once
>it just werks
Around 2013 I fell into depression, somehow discovered funnyjunk, then 4chan, went alot on /g/ since I spend a lot of time on my pc.
I fell for the thinkpad + arch meme and used it for about a year and a half, ricing shit etc.
Then VNs and MPC-HC shaders got me back into the wangblows camp, although I have dualboot or virtual machines of loonix on my pcs.
>>55383072
>/g/ told me about it
>installed it (with Xubuntu)
>worked great
>suddenly remembered, can't install ubuntu on macbooks
>fuckme.jpg
>kept using VM
>got bored and dropped it
>now left in dust
>2007
>friend is curious about tech
>sees muh @ in some linux/bsd related channel
>tell him that I contribute to FOSS by fixing bugs/testing this
>youdonthavetobesmartforthis.jpg
>guide him into the world of linux
>show him all the ways of ricing your DE
>show him all the cool ricing options
>show him the ways of autism
>give him those free Ubuntu CD's
>he's on and off, dual booting and living in denial
>2009
>discovers arch
>enrolls in CS studies
>becomes deeply obsessed with ricing
>spends days and nights ricing his Arch
>starts learning japanese and watching a shitload of anime
>eventually drops out of college
>they don't respect FOSS and ricing
>blows through all his savings(he was exceptionally good at saving money)
>claims that being a maintainer for 50+ ricing packages is a full time job
>preaches RMS
>gets kicked out of home by mom
>turns out he lied about being enrolled in college for 2 years
>lands a job as a lousy sysadmin in the same town we lived and grew up in
>spends his days tormenting poor Windows end users
>spends nights lurking /g/ and posting on BST/Desktop threads
>gets a tattoo of tux
I wish this wasn't true, but it is.
>>55383072
I came to Linux world from Android phone. Earlier I saw Linux in action during Knoppix Live session performed on my Win98 box by some IT-enhanced guy resurrecting MS system and installing useful things to maintain it better. When I bought my first Android (Froyo) Smartphone (Alcatel OT-908) I read Android has Linux inside and began thinking of installing full-fledged Linux distribution on hard-drive. I made it happen on my Packard-Bell laptop 5 years ago, beginning from Mint and hopping to Classic Ubuntu (with Unity) and I still stick to it.
>>55383963
That would be "spyware", grandpa, not Windows. I'll never understand why Windows is blamed for you ruining your PC with your recklessly degenerate, porn-surfing habit
>>55383072
> Ask friend for a Minecraft server
> Gives me an IP and a username + pass
> "Here ya go"
> Has me download putty
> Debian 6, with nothing installed, pure CLI
> Wtf.gif
> Spend next two weeks getting to know Debian through CLI.
From there I installed it as a desktop operating system. Still using it and running Debian 8 with Gnome 3.14.
I experimented with a few distros back in the early 00's for fun (Mandrake, Lindows, other stuff I can't remember). Was never really able to accomplish anything with it though.
Later on I ended up working with a lot of Red Hat servers in my job along with various flavors of UNIX and got more familiar with it, though still used Windows exclusively at home.
I fully switched to Linux for my own personal use after Windows 10 (Fuck that shit) and was happy to find that the desktop experience has improved a lot over the past 15 years.
>1994
>start studies at University of Helsinki
>take comp sci as a minor subject
>nearly every computer in comp sci department is already running Linux because it was literally the birthplace of Linux
3 classes that taught it, did care for it. +3yrs later made my first box and put debain on, and made an hdd with arch for shits and giggles. Command line is my home now.
>>55383072
>How did you get into Linux?
I hit the backspace key 26 times.
>>55395128
>hit the backspace key 26 times.
28 newfriend
Well, I was working on stuff in blender and the GIMP, on windows 7, and one day, one, glorious day, I read the license and I went:
>woah
and like,
yeah,
dood.
>>55383072
/g/ memes
learned of it's existance from reading some e-zines in the 90's and then started with zipslack.
who even remembers zipslack these days? lol
>>55395356
>didn't use linux before /g/
normies get out
Found out about "Linux" as it was originally called at the time from a Usenet post long, long ago from Linus himself (seriously). Got interested in it just because it was something different, tinkered with it but lost interest because it wasn't much to go on.
Later when Slackware 1.0 was released - the original distro - I got back into it but again there just wasn't much to work with in those days.
I felt Linux sucked then, and after oh about 25 years now I haven't really had any reason to alter that line of thinking. It still sucks overall, it'll never be a true desktop replacement for Windows (or even OSX/macOS for that matter) because nobody gives a fuck about it in the business world other than having it be the backbone of servers and not much else.
Linux sucks, it always will suck, and that's just how it goes. Some of you just love things that suck (and not in the really good sucking way if you catch my drift).
>>55385921
Wait! Are you me?
>>55389113
Yeah, instead everyone is talking about when they first made use of something as a day-to-day platform that utilized the kernel.
Fucking autistic mouth-breathing window licker fuckhead.
>>55383072
>Start off with IBM PC-DOS 6.1
>Graduate to Windows 3.11
>Continue on to Win95
>Dad becomes NT 4.0 admin for local branch of Fortune 50 company
>Become NT 4.0 expert, but start to feel held back by inherent limitations in the OS
>Time goes by, Win2k and XP come out
>Meet a guy doing CS that runs a lot of debian servers
>Talk to him, hear about how Linux will let me get right down into the internals of the OS in a way Windows won't
>Decide to go with Ubuntu 6.06 to get started
>use both XP and Ubuntu for a few years, mostly skip Vista
>Windows 7 claims to support installing to GPT partitioned drives
>Rewrites partition table to MBR instead
>So disgusted by this I switch to Linux permanently
>Stick with Ubuntu until 11.04 Unity fiasco
>Switch to Mint for MATE, because Gnome 2 was the only viable option since KDE introduced Plasma
>Still using Mint 17.3, considering distro-hopping again to avoid SystemD
Just realized, been using Linux for 10 years this year. Feels good, man.
>>55387176
Thanks for your contribution anon, you are the hero we need.
>>55387176
>been writing free device driver replacements for the binary blobs in Linux
Doing God's work, anon.
>>55387605
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>>55389328
>Also MUH WINE fags please get lost and die. Fuck you.
I don't get why you say this but with playonlinux is very easy to set up windows programs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqgugAj69xw
>>55383751
Made me kek, you cheeki bastardooo
