throgh wrote:Hmm, haven't done this here and I think it is just nice for everyone to know each other better: So hello everyone here. My name is Tobias and I live in Germany. I'm around for nine years now using GNU/Linux as main operating-system and more than 20 years from today I had the first tryout for GNU/Linux together with my dad. This was on SUSE Linux 6.0. After a long session with try and error we had the X-server up and running: Grey background and some eyes following the mouse-cursor, nothing more. But hey, who said the start should be easy? We had no further clue what to do and therefore left Linux again for the time being. Nevertheless I was fascinated by the idea and had further looks onto different distributions: Corel Linux, Slackware and SUSE Linux with version 10.1.
Windows stayed as main operating-system for me most the time until 2010 as I've had enough from Microsoft, their decisions and the enforced acceptance for me as "customer" not "user" or even "human being" - just some kind of "product". So after another search while GNU/Linux was until then just experimental from time to time and more concentrated on server-environments, I had a look onto Ubuntu and this was my personal breakthrough. And yes I've done also changes for the used distribution: From Ubuntu to elementaryOS, then more into Debian and after this Devuan as I had also enough accepting decisions from some authority above. Getting more into free, libre software with every step taken and after using Trisquel and Parabola I came up here in 2017. And I prefer to stay, doing as much as possible Hyperbola can stay!
So this was my personal story behind using GNU/Linux until today.
To be honest, I wish I had went to linux before 2010, but meh... it is what it is, I actually left around windows 8.1, and I became very suspicious when I noticed the ram was getting eaten twice as much from 8.0 to 8.1.
That's what made me look into ditching windows as a whole. I first tried Fedora, then, debian, then trisquel, then debian again, then devuan, trisquel i went back to, then parabola then trisquel for a while, then Hyperbola and a few of the others beforehand, trisquel, then when Hyperbola 0.2 came out and I asked for help on some things, I finally realized why I couldn't install Hyperbola, it was a silly thing that was causing it to fail. I installed it and from then on, I never looked back for most of my laptops now use Hyperbola.
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