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1. It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 08:16:05 JST It's FOSS

   Share your Linux journey in the comments below! 🙂 🐧

   #linux

   • Dustin Williams (htotw@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 08:23:19 JST Dustin Williams

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     @itsfoss Around 1999 from a Popular Mechanics article.

   • Isho'ye (wuffish@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 09:13:54 JST Isho'ye

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     @itsfoss 1998-ish, needed something better than Win9x/NT for our shiny new cable broadband connection. It was the hot thing all the l33t kids in our local 2600 group were getting into.

     Installed Debian on an Am5x86-133 to act as the house firewall and router, web/email host, and Quake2 server, packed into an OG IBM PC-AT 5150 case. Setting up the NAT/firewall stuff was an exercise in madness, but once configured, was smooth and fast.

   • Sergio (sezamoracl@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 09:21:57 JST Sergio

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     @itsfoss 2005, after made one question into a irc channel and received "all the love" from the community. Then get a Debian sarge cd and I never left the distribution. 🤔️

   • madmax (pikachu_sensei@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 11:45:50 JST madmax

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     @itsfoss It was roller coaster ride for me. I saw Ubuntu on a YouTube channel tried on Virtual box but then saw mint, so installed that on bare metal then got screen tearing so installed Ubuntu but because of reasons went back to windows. And this cycle of installing Linux using it for a week then going back to windows continued for almost 3 years until I decided to dual boot. I eventually got rid of windows because there's was no need for it anymore. I am using Linux exclusively since 2022. 😁

   • madmax (pikachu_sensei@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 12:04:24 JST madmax

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     @itsfoss Oh btw whoever said that windows is easy don't account for the obvious "because you are used it" factor. My first proper interaction with an OS was Android 5 yep not windows. So I was so used to way of doing things in that way and I used to tinker with a lot and because of that I was familiar with filesystem. I got used to the filesystem with / and all directories. But when I got my first computer with Windows 10, you bet I was confused like what the hell with a way installing things.

   • hellaconfused (hellaconfused@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 12:17:40 JST hellaconfused

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     @itsfoss
     In the early to mid 90s I was friends with a guy TJ who had a CS degree from the1980s. He loved the UNIX environment but was stuck in DOS & Win3.1 world.

     I was learning AutoCad in a 286. Teacher had a 386. I was building a 486DX 100 with Octeck DCA2 motherboard.

     I went to the computer store for something & saw a book Linux. Slackware CDROM in the back. I took the book to TJ & his eyes lit up. We had a lot of fun & heartache as Linux wasn't polished.

     Thanks for everything TJ Wright

   • Emir Morataon (noztox@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 12:53:54 JST Emir Morataon

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     @itsfoss first look at RedHat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) and I forget about years but that day, my friend brought Debian 3.0 (Woody) from local magazine, maybe 2002 or something and learn linux networking with slackware, debian, last suse linux by Novell but serious used for everyday since last mandriva linux 2010 and cross over distro linux. And today just used Debian, OpenSuse and Alpine Linux 😊

   • obi0bi :tux: :zorin: (obi0bi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 13:40:01 JST obi0bi :tux: :zorin:

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     @itsfoss been an off and on relationship for me. Tried installing mandrake on my power pc iBook, didn't go well, gone between Ubuntu, fedora, mint and windows since 05'. Always came back to windows due to gaming but now, I'm permanently Linux for gaming and everything else.

   • bruuteuzius (bruuteuzius@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 14:33:50 JST bruuteuzius

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     @itsfoss 20 years ago I couldn’t stand the fact that windows couldn’t run on my old pc. So I tried “this weird ubuntu thing” 🙈

   • SagXD (sagxd@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 14:43:07 JST SagXD

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     @itsfoss I learn about linux from a Indian YouTuber in 2021 but installed in April 2022 (Started With Ubuntu)

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 16:37:55 JST It's FOSS

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     • bruuteuzius

     @bruuteuzius That is a long time back!

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 16:38:12 JST It's FOSS

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     • obi0bi :tux: :zorin:

     @obi0bi Nice!

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 16:39:03 JST It's FOSS

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     • madmax

     @pikachu_sensei Exactly, people forget the "because you are used to it" part!

   • khoi 👨‍💻☕️ (khoi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 16:40:05 JST khoi 👨‍💻☕️

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     @itsfoss In 2020, when I used WSL. Does it count?

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 16:40:05 JST It's FOSS

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     • khoi 👨‍💻☕️

     @khoi Depends on who you ask. 👀

   • ::1 (hwaddr@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 17:35:12 JST ::1

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     @itsfoss beginning of 21th century (2001). At college, with Red Hat 6.2

   • eboye (eboye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 17:56:14 JST eboye

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     @itsfoss my friend from high school was installing RedHat and showed me. It was 1999

   • ઉશ્કેરાયેલી-અદાલત-૬૫૧ (excusable@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 00:20:39 JST ઉશ્કેરાયેલી-અદાલત-૬૫૧

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     @itsfoss currently I am on my third attempt to completely switch to #linux as my daily driver 😁

   • hophophop (hophophop@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 04:25:42 JST hophophop

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     @itsfoss In 1997 or 1998 I had to live-edit some typos in html pages. I'd say it was an apache webserver living inside a linux server, and I had to login via telnet session (ISDN). The editor I used was nano.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 15:25:36 JST It's FOSS

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     • ઉશ્કેરાયેલી-અદાલત-૬૫૧

     @Excusable All the best!