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[โ€“] dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This was the same era when I tried to switch, due to the shittiness of Vista. I wanna say it was Mandrake Linux was what I was trying to use, but I couldn't get it running correctly on my hardware.

Came back some time later and discovered Mepis Linux. After that, I never went back.

[โ€“] flameleaf@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago

I started with Ubuntu, switched to Mint and finally settled on Arch.