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My first taste of Linux was in 2002 when a classmate/labmate looked frustrated and installed Cygwin on my Windows computer. A year or so later, I built a compu
by abecode 6y ago
My first taste of Linux was in 2002 when a classmate/labmate looked frustrated and installed Cygwin on my Windows computer. A year or so later, I built a computer from components I bought from NewEgg. No distros worked because I had bought a SATA hard drive and the drivers were not built in. Knoppix worked when booting from a CD though. I "wasted" about 2 weeks of my life compiling a kernel that had SATA drivers built in (not kernel modules), using Gentoo. Air quotes around "wasted" because I learned a lot and it gave me confidence. But I still get a "kernel panic" in my stomach while installing linux.