Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? 867
colinneagle writes "Linux dude Bryan Lunduke blogged here about the top three approaches he thinks are the easiest for new users to pick up Linux. Lunduke's, for example, went Ubuntu -> Arch -> openSUSE. It raises a question that Slashdot could answer well in the comments: what's your distro use order from beginning to now? Maybe we could spot some trends."
Slackware on floppies (Score:5, Insightful)
Then Redhat then centos
Back in 2002. (Score:4, Insightful)
RedHat, Knoppix, then back to XP because I was tired of editing .CONF files to do simple things like set up dual displays. Windows got better, so I haven't tried Linux since the early 2000's.
Re:Slackware on floppies (Score:5, Insightful)
Come on, is this really necessary or meaningful?
Who runs one distro at a time anyway? I have four or five installed in virtual machines. I've had as many as 3 running in production servers on physical hardware.
Does another post of untabulated me-too replys really provide any meaningful data?
Of course not.
I suggest this response:
Fill it out in painstaking detail, state your reasons and justification for each switch,
Thump chest vigorously at the end each rant section,
Get it all out of your system,
then click the Cancel button.
The world will be a better place.
redhat... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Slackware on floppies (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I left Linux for OS X... (Score:3, Insightful)
avoiding OS X is not about money, its about morality. apparently you have no scruples.
Re:Slackware on floppies (Score:4, Insightful)
Slackware covers all your needs...
Ran sw first in the mid 90's... ran away for quite a few years... then landed on Debian about 2006 or so... then Ubuntu, and now on Mint for the last 2 years. See, its not about increasing complexity, but less...
Re:I left Linux for OS X... (Score:2, Insightful)
or maybe he has things to get done and doesn't want to fret about losing sound or wifi or even a functional desktop, with every software update.
i don't see how simply using free software is morally superior. i can see a moral argument for only developing free software, but that can be done on mac os x as well.