• folekaule@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago
    • Commodore 64 (kernal)
    • Amiga OS
    • MS-DOS 3.2, 5.0
    • Windows 3.1
    • Slackware Linux
    • Windows NT 4
    • RedHat Linux
    • Windows XP
    • Ubuntu Linux
    • Windows 7
    • Windows 10
    • Rasbian
    • PopOS

    Roughly in order of appearance. Personal devices only. I used many more for work.

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    First OS: MS-DOS, I reckon around v3 - was running on an IBM XT PC.

    First Linux distro: Slackware, came on a CD-ROM on the front of a PC magazine.

  • madjo@feddit.nl
    2·
    5 months ago

    First operating system was DOS 4 or 5, I think. On big 5.25” floppy disks on an 8088. Unless we’re counting whatever was running on a commodore vic20.

    My first Linux distribution was Red hat Linux, somewhere around 1997, 1998 and I had a really tough time getting it installed.

    I also once had a trial version of os/2 warp. Which was fun but pointless.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    5 months ago

    School: if it wasn’t a Macintosh Plus it was something like it. We were given very little time with it and had to go to a special computer room to use them so I don’t remember a lot of specifics about it, beyond the school tech guy having to painstakingly load each program we wanted to use manually from a floppy

    Home: Windows 3.1. I don’t think we got the internet until Windows 95, though

  • wheresmysurplusvalue [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    1·
    5 months ago

    For Linux I started with Wubi to install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. It installed Linux as a program in Windows and added some kind of hacky boot entry to boot into Ubuntu from your windows partition. Pretty cool, and I’m still pretty nostalgic for the GNOME 2 aesthetic with compiz effects from that time.

  • DrTeeth@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    Sinclair Basic on my ZX81 with 1k ram. My first personal linux distro was Redhat 5.2. I used VAXVMS at work.

  • the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    First linux distro was Ubuntu but I used it in VM but the actual daily driver was Archlinux. I think Windows XP was the first OS which i used on computer(In home sure but in school maybe it was Windows 97?)

  • fobo@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    My first OS was Apple OS and what the NCR’s ran in 1978. My favorite game was snipes on Netware in 1986? My first OS distribution via retail box was windows 1.0. My first Linux distribution was FreeBSD 2.0 er wait… My first Linux distribution was Debian 1.1 buzz on 3/5" floppies.