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  • Jess@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    2 months ago

    My heat was out and I needed a way to warm my apartment so installed Gentoo on my Dell XPS. /s

    That was around the time Windows 2000 was coming out and I couldn’t afford a copy. I’d been dabbling for a year or two before. That was my first and last dual boot computer. MythTV really sold me on linux.





  • Oof. I am pretty sure it was Mandrake in 97. I bounced around trying what was around before settling on Gentoo for a decade plus. Then both my laptop and desktop got too long in the tooth to make distcc even worthwhile and migrated to Arch. I figured it was the closest distro to Gentoo that I wouldn’t have too many problems. I don’t know howong it’s been now, but I’m an Arch fangirl. I’ve installed it many times since on work computers as well. For remote systems though, it’s always Debian stable.