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1. Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 01:14:43 JST Christine Hall

   This writer and I both started using Linux at about the same time and we both started with Mandrake, which we bought shrink-wrapped at a bricks and mortar store: 20 Years of Linux | Blathering https://cubiclenate.com/2024/09/24/20-years-of-linux-blathering/

   • murph :amiga: (murph@hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 01:14:42 JST murph :amiga:

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     @BrideOfLinux I started with Slackware, but when Mandrake came out, I picked it up, and used it for a while. I still have a remnant around.

   • Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:10:58 JST Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

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     @BrideOfLinux I was a bit more comfortable with online ordering - having worked for one of the companies selling cheap CDs online - but not overly so.

     I do miss the box-set days. There's something nice about holding a manual and physical media in your hands. It's about as practical as vinyl records (probably less so, actually) but I still miss having something to hold. Then again, most of the time a box set is just something you have to get rid of in 10 years when things start piling up...

   • murph :amiga: (murph@hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:10:58 JST murph :amiga:

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     • Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

     @jzb @BrideOfLinux I may hang on to things a bit long, but sometimes worth it. #slackware

   • Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:10:59 JST Christine Hall

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     • Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

     @jzb I had been purposefully reading about Linux and open source for several years. Although there were cheap CD sets of many distros available online, at the time I'd never ordered online and wasn't about to trust my credit card number to the Web. I discovered by accident while visiting Best Buy that they had the PowerPak edition of Mandrake, and a boxed sets of Red Hat Linux. - both for about $70. I went home, did some research, and bought Mandrake the next day. I've been using Linux since.

   • Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:11:00 JST Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

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     @BrideOfLinux Curious - did you seek out a Linux box set or was it an opportunistic "oh, let's see what this is about" thing?

     I had never heard of Linux at all when I bought my first Linux CDs (Slackware 96). Just pure luck that I stumbled on a set in the cheap CD-ROM section of a store. $deity only knows how my life would've turned out if I'd missed it or decided against buying it.