In 2015, while pursuing my engineering degree at Amity University Noida, I bought my first personal laptop — an Intel-powered Dell Vostro. To my pl...
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My first time using Linux was at the university in the late 90s. I installed a Slackware distro to be able to do at home some exercises about O.S. and C programming. Good memories where everything needs to be compiled from the source code xD.
Wooooh .... U jumped right into the deep end of Linux . Were there any beginner friendly distros in 1990?
Beginners were different in 1990 😅 they were not afraid of “not friendly” and could befriend a tractor’s engine — at least having a manual 🤣
No, there were no user friendly distros for beginners or regular users. Everything ran basically from command line, no apt-get or similar tools to easily install software. We used to download the source code (with the basic internet connections of those times) and compile it.
Tha Slackware distro I installed was in a CD that came with a magazine. Rude times! 😅
I downloaded mine onto about a million floppies I liberated from my office stationary cupboard.
Slackware was friendlier than DOS, Windows 3.1 or WFW!
I support your enthusiasm.
Did you know the meanings of ubuntu is:
My connection with linux is a bit different, maybe a challenging. A final push in that direction is give me a company decision: A MacBookPro was force to change to DELL laptop 16GB RAM, i5-1135G7 that is 4 years older computer as previous. Company image is Windows11. I need to continue a same works as in Mac. So I decided to save my previous workflow which is mainly terminal based including vim use. So I copy the whole history ( I always set history size to 100k ). Instead working on Windows I start with this command:
After that I working on a virtual Ubuntu system on a old company laptop, and that setup is allow me to use Teams and Chrome on windows. So that workflow on first view may looks a bit wierd but the heavy development is belong to a cmd terminal. Also I using copilot-cli in ubuntu terminal, but the terminal is split a 5 or more panel, so nearly I don't need to switch.
A big monitor ( OCD TV ) split two section: Chrome | Ubuntu terminal splitted by panel, the top right small panel is:
alias clock="tty-clock -s -c -C 2", meanwhile on laptop screen run the Teams.Ubuntu under Windows challenging part is Docker need to install to Windows (Desktop) and then connect to Ubunutu to working seamless in Ubuntu ( this part is a most challenging to figure out )
Also great help to use window:cmd set for as linux terminal.
A hyperspeed navigation command of course zoxide.
Check what means this, the core information is hidden by the demo video
MP is FUFF
Not a big fan of WSL I prefer Bare Metal Installation
WSL is the only option in our company policies. ( Even dev.to is blocked by firewall, a year ago the github.com also was on blocked list )
If it was my company , I would have replaced all windows with Linux
If you're interested in keeping track of history, have a look at Atuin
Update on my daily driver for next 6 months - Fedora 44 Linux KDE Spin with Cachy OS 7.0.0 Kernel
Nice read 👏
I had a similar path — started with Ubuntu and spent a lot of time just figuring things out and breaking stuff 😅
Looking back, that phase actually taught me way more than using a “comfortable” setup.
Linux can be frustrating at times, but it really forces you to understand how things work under the hood.
This is just part 1 next part 2 Distrohopping and settling on RPM Based Distros and Arch Linux finally
Arch is quite popular but it never felt a good fit for me. My journey (1994–2020) was Slackware, Debian, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, OS X (G4), MacOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, Arch, NixOS. With some Cygwin to make windows usable at work :-)
Not a fan of Windows now after moving to Linux. Microsoft has shat it self
Just a small recommendation for all interested in the topic – there is a super cool and quite well-known Linux insides series of posts by 0xAX. He's now updating the content, so it's worth having a look 🙂
Starting with Linux is a great way to build real technical skills—everything becomes clearer once you get hands-on with the terminal and system basics.
Definitely
Love the journey from Ubuntu to Arch - true Linux glow-up
i do still dabble in Fedora from time to time
Unfortunately, it’s not always the case with mass production laptops 😖
Mass Production uncertified laptops , Mine was certified by Canonical
I still have memories of installing Slackware from a pile of 3.5 "floppy" disks! A long way, now ,from back then.