When did you start using Linux and why?

[AK-47]

I didn't take Linux seriously until closer to the end of Windows 7 support because there are hundreds of distros, and didn't have the patience to figure out which ones were usable. Then a comment somewhere on YouTube mentioned MX Linux, which I thought was designed for DJs. I was curious as to what a DJ-oriented distro might entail, so I gave it a whirl, and turns out it had nothing to do with DJs, but was a pleasure to use. I would highly recommend it to the aspiring DJ.

The installer was OK and not full of eye-candy, but there were some minor annoyances. However the installer seemed simple enough that I thought I can just submit a patch or two to make it that much better, so that's what I did. Almost one year later...

[Head_on_a_Stick]

15 minutes on a tube vid and that never would have happend

There are YouTube videos warning about the dangers of installing Linux? Damn, I wish I had seen those before burning that Xubuntu installation disk...

No danger of....simplistic instructions How To. A fourth grader can install most distros these years and put the check on " install along side"

Yes, you're probably right. I've never been very good with technical stuff

@seaken64, shhh...

[jackdanielsesq]

Bill Gates is a disgrace, a fraud - he had zilch when the IBM suits came to visit him
Steve Jobs was the man - the only thing that MSFT has that worked was their EULA

Started with Mandrake, Mandriva, PCLOS + KDE 3.5, with locked-down XP as backup.
MX is by far the best O/S out there, and will be for a long, long while - providing we
dont lose our way, get caught-up in that 'shiny-new-toy-syndrome' that pervades all

Have W7 on another mosheen, spanning 3x partitions, about 30Gig, sitting there, doing
nothing - believe I have to return to college if I ever want to build another spreadsheet

Developers - Keep up the good work ...

Regards

Jack

[Bartman]

Debian Wheezy was my first Linux experience back in 2014 prior to Windows XP EOL.

I acquired a bootable usb flash drive with Debian Wheezy and installed Debian Wheezy onto a spare computer I had setting around.

Confused and lost with a willingness to learn Linux I discovered Linux to be easy to navigate and use and a few weeks later I wasn't so confused or lost.

I've tried several Linux distros and have my favorites although seem to prefer the Debian based / built Linux distros.

[junoluna]

2008 : ubuntu's hardy heron ... used ubuntu for about 4 years but never really understood what i was doing and the forums scared me

i was (and sort of still am) clueless and broke linux regularly .... buying new laptops with windows pre-installed always pushed me back to microsoft until it started to get on my nerves too much ... up to a year in some cases ... used a number of distributions in that time but nothing stuck until now

only started using MX about 6 months ago and am absolutely, definitely free of windows now ... i also have KDE Neon installed on a partition of one laptop ... not entirely sure why ... i prefer KDE with the MX touch

[Cskabas]

same here, 2008 ubunto 8.04 LTS... had a windows vista laptop which shut down when becoming too hot, so tried a lot of distro's... mepis, mint, ubuntu, openSuse, elive, ultimate,... 12 years later now trying the KDE of MX... and it's going steady