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Slackware was my first venture into Linux but I found my home in Debian slink. Cheers to all debian packagers here on HN, your hours spent make this user have

• nurettin 6y ago
  Debian slink was old stable when I started with a potato cd I borrowed from a professor's desk after my third crash of the day with Windows 98.
• jlgaddis 6y ago
  I, too, started out with Slackware -- although, at that time, I think most did. I used it for a couple years before giving in to everyone who had been telling me about Debian and, finally, I blew away my Slackware and installed Bo. They were right, I did want to switch to Debian (I just didn't know it until I tried it). Now, ~23 years later, my workstation and two primary laptops are all running Debian. I've made the switch to Mac twice in the last 12 years or so -- but not for long! At one point I decided I was going to switch to Arch Linux "for good". A short while later, I thought "maybe Fedora would be a better fit". Not long after, I came to my senses and, as I said earlier, I went running back to Debian. For various reasons, I've got several VMs running "not Debian" and a few that are even running "not Linux" (none running Windows, however!) and I'm a big fan of CentOS/RHEL on the server (and, on occasion, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, whenever they're the best tool for the job). At this point, though, it would take some extremely compelling reasons to cause me to switch to "not Debian" on my workstation and laptops. It's certainly not perfect and there are a few things I'd change if it were up to me but, all things considered, it's absolutely the best OS for me!
• threeio 6y ago
  Bob's slack was strong with us all back then.. my 486/40 screamed back then.... oh god I'm old. ;)