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What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

First OS was MS-DOS on a Tandy. First Linux distro was Knoppix.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

MS-DOS on a Tandy

Same, but mine was running Tandy DeskMate on top of MS-DOS.

[–] redbr64@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Woah, thanks for that bit of history! As someone who went from DOS to Win 3.1 outside of the US, I didn't even know that was a thing!