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Comment by bitexploder | Hacker News Reader

Slackware.. my first Linux district. In 1995. Classic shell font. I miss those days, but modern Linux is amazing.

They say you never forget your first, but I’m not sure that’s true anymore as the combination of cloud VMs and graphical installers have reduced nearly all Linux installs to a couple mouse clicks.

Well, rest assured that for at least some noobies they will still remember their first.

For me, it was ~ 2 - 3 years ago, I had just bought myself a new laptop.

I knew what Linux was from some experience with a raspberry pi, and wanted to try it on my main machine, so I installed Fedora as a dual boot.

I've only booted Windows on that(this) machine twice, and no longer have it installed.

Edit: The installer itself was graphical and mouse clicks, but X11 did not play well with optimus graphics at the time, so I found myself offline using man pages and tmux very quickly. Daily drove TUI only for a couple weeks before I sat down and fixed X. Hopefully this counts.

Everyone has to start somewhere. No Linux purity guardians here :)

This depends on which distro you are installing. There is still many CLI based installations. Arch Linux for example.

My first too. I remember installing Linux with 30 or so floppy disks. I also use to go through and configure the kernel and build it myself because I was into over clocking at the time.

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