Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs: on Nostr: #MyFirstDistro was RedHat Linux 5.1 (1998). I had been using OS/2 up until then, but ...
#MyFirstDistro was RedHat Linux 5.1 (1998). I had been using OS/2 up until then, but was increasingly using ported Unix applications in full-screen XFree86 sessions. At one point, the OS/2 VLB IDE driver irrecoverably thrashed my filesystem for the sin of going into config.sys and enabling DMA. It was clear by that point that Linux (or GNU plus Linux) had a brighter future ahead than OS/2, so I took it as a sign to switch. I believe the default desktop was KDE 2, though there was a GNOME 1 preview, and I actually used WindowMaker. It came with StarOffice, the extremely cursed predecessor to OpenOffice and LibreOffice.
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