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As the sibling comment says, was relatively popular here in Europe. It was my first GNU/Linux disto. I had problems installing Debian in a laptop with a nasty W
by jtorrents 3y ago
As the sibling comment says, was relatively popular here in Europe. It was my first GNU/Linux disto. I had problems installing Debian in a laptop with a nasty Wifi PCMCIA card, Mandrake was able to make it work.
- qup 3y agoSame, broadcom wifi issues and 3dfx driver issues for my voodoo card but mandrake mostly just worked. I eventually learned enough to install debian-netinst and get everything working, probably within about a year.
- jtorrents 3y agoExactly the same here ;) I also ended using Debian when I learned enough.
- kergonath 3y agoSuSE for me (well, actually, FreeBSD in between, and MacOS the whole time). But same difference.
- walteweiss 3y agoMe too! Count me in! Mandriva was my first ever Linux distro! It was so long ago that I forgot it happened. I came to think that was Ubuntu, but it came after Mandriva and after Ubuntu I was on Debian, of course. Now it’s Arch on my laptop and Fedora on my desktops.