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When did you jump into Linux? (piefed.ca)
submitted 3 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/ask@piefed.social
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For me it was 2018.

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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Genuinely cannot remember my first distro or who I got it from, but became the "linux guy" locally when Ubuntu was mass distributing install CDs to anyone who asked. Think it was v5? Early 2000s anyways. Got a few hundred, switched a decent chunk of the town over, got the school to do a linux lab