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    I started with SuSE 5 and it came with a book. I think it started with something like: “Don’t panic! You can do this!”

    It was rough at first, but once I got into it I was hooked.

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      YaST and the fucking AVM Fritz ISDN ISA Card…

      A part of me is still crying when opening YaST killed my hand written configuration…

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      Curious if you’re still rocking suse today?

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        Nah I went over to camp Debian for a long time, switched when Debian Potato was released. Then when Debian kinda stalled I was lured into Ubuntu because they had the latest and greatest. I know it isn’t the cool choice these days, but I have stuck with Ubuntu ever since.

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          Recently tired Ubuntu on my work laptop and it was a surprisingly pleasant experience compared to all the negative things I’ve heard about Ubuntu. Especially the installer was next level simple.

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            Yeah I love Ubuntu, it’s really fine. But I think because it’s easy and for a lot of people their first Linux, it’s seen as like the baby version of Linux. So people bitch about it a lot, as if it’s somehow inferior to other distros. Like if you don’t compile everything from scratch you are somehow not worthy?

            Hard “Real programmer” vibes. https://xkcd.com/378/

            And yes, I use pico as a text editor, it’s fine really.

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            Wow! That’s really cool, Debian Potato was so hype back then. And every new release was amazing, I had Sarge running for so long. And I had a little home made router with Debian Sarge and an uptime of like 3 years. I had to replace the NIC on it, from a 10mbit coax only to a coax and UTP model because I was switching over to UTP. I didn’t want to shutdown the server, so I live swapped the ISA cards, and it actually worked!

            Those were the days.