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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:04:23 JST nixCraft 🐧

   When did you join the cult of Linux?

   I started in 1994 ;)

   • Matt (wizard3rdclass@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:07:32 JST Matt

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     @nixCraft I think I got the yggdrasil distro maybe in 1995. I'd been working in NetBSD (when Theo was still with NetBSD) and Theo pulled one of his "He forgot his meds today" abuse mails with me, so I said the hell with *BSD. I went from yggdrasil to slackware and starting going, hey, interesting. Not bad. Amusingly was back in NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD within a few years up to about 2010- but sticking with linux mostly since then. Linux has matured a lot.

   • GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:09:18 JST GoatsLive

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     @nixCraft Same...

   • John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:10:12 JST John Maxwell

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     @nixCraft 0.94

   • Savasten (savasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:23:13 JST Savasten

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     @nixCraft 1998

   • Seth Galitzer (sgsax@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:29:57 JST Seth Galitzer

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     @nixCraft Installed RH for the first time in 1998/99., before Enterprise Linux existed. Used SunOS in school before that, so I already understood how *nix worked.

   • SilentMobius (silentmobius@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:36:23 JST SilentMobius

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     @nixCraft first used Solaris in 1994, had my first slackware running on a scrap 486 the next year.

   • Mohammad Veisi (mhmdvs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:44:17 JST Mohammad Veisi

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     @nixCraft 2008

   • Dan (dfunk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 12:16:13 JST Dan

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     @nixCraft 1998. God bless you, Fred, and your xfishtank hijinks for introducing me to one of the great loves of my life.

   • glutto (glutto@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 12:22:14 JST glutto

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     @nixCraft
     I dabbled on a 486SX way back. A few decades later in 2020 I cold-switched fully. I've been quite content ever since.

   • chrishazfun (chrishazfun@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 12:35:28 JST chrishazfun

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     @nixCraft 2014 when I couldn't get Windows on my Dell PC and thought "might as well try Mint out"

   • Максим (belovmv@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 12:35:33 JST Максим

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     @nixCraft in 2007

   • Joseph Horgan (josephpmh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 12:43:28 JST Joseph Horgan

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     @nixCraft Latecomer, I joined as a user. 2007, when I had just bought a Dell laptop with Vista, and needed something that worked on a Dell laptop. I read Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' review of Ubuntu Edgy (which included step by step on how to dual-boot). Within a few months, I was giving Fiesty all the partitions. Still a user, not a coder

   • Ted Roden (tedroden@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 13:11:43 JST Ted Roden

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     @nixCraft 1998

   • Landon Taylor (mossbiscuits@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 13:13:25 JST Landon Taylor

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     @nixCraft 2022! And I haven't looked back.

   • Steven Brown (infecticide@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 13:30:25 JST Steven Brown

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     @nixCraft 2001 with Knoppix followed by Gentoo a few months later.

   • Epistomai (epistomai@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 13:45:53 JST Epistomai

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     @nixCraft 1997, and slackware was the one I liked the most

   • levent sönmez (lanartri@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 14:12:46 JST levent sönmez

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     @nixCraft 94, slackware

   • Ben (cipherseekr@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 14:23:58 JST Ben

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     @nixCraft Wow I'm impressed by all the Linux users prior to the new millennium. I have used Linux previously but I went all in in 2023

   • devur (devur@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 14:38:26 JST devur

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     @nixCraft in 2007 opensuse

   • Rthaar (rthaar@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 17:07:26 JST Rthaar

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     @nixCraft Started in 1993 on a slackware distro bought in a bookstore on my Highscreen 486DX33 with a 170Mb disk drive and 256 kb VGA video card.
     Later a Suse distro, then a Redhat distro, then Novell Linux (as i am still fond of Novell) Later on Ubuntu.
     ..
     now....
     ...
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     Windows 11
     Reason... Delphi runs on windows, and Delphi is so great that i accept windows on the side.
     Considering Lazarus now, a delphi clone that is getting better and better now and runs on linux as well.

   • Nixen (nixen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 19:53:31 JST Nixen

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     @nixCraft 2013-2014 in junior hs. Almost half of my life using linux

   • heybales (heybales@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 21:50:44 JST heybales

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     @nixCraft 1998 with a boxed version of S.u.S.E. I was in withdrawals from not having a Unix shell account.

   • marcthenarc (marcthenarc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 22:45:45 JST marcthenarc

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     @nixCraft Arounf the 2.2 Kernel, pre-2000

   • Gabriel (gabriel4340@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:08:58 JST Gabriel

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     @nixCraft I had a dual boot for a long time until I finally ditched windows completely in 2021, fairly recently.
     So far, it has been great, I love GNU/Linux ❤️🔥

   • Gilles Bonnet (gillesbonnet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:37:29 JST Gilles Bonnet

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     @nixCraft linux .99 plxx you had to compile it according to your hardware

   • Chip35 (chip35@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:56:59 JST Chip35

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     @nixCraft I switched from running two machines and a KVM to Linux and virtualbox the same day Vista was released. I did this after reading the reviews and verifying that RDP worked fine under Linux.

   • exc/ava (exclava@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 20:28:14 JST exc/ava

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     @nixCraft I think 2017? It's been forever it feels like now lol.

   • Siddhesh Gunjal (siddhu_@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 11:58:51 JST Siddhesh Gunjal

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     @nixCraft everyone here is like 90s and early 2000s and then there's me, who started in like 2019 😂. So am I the newby here?🤣

   • Jason (powwow573@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 21:28:31 JST Jason

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     @nixCraft I tried but they won’t let me join 🥹