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[โ€“] GenProtectionFault@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At the time, I bought a boxed copy of 7.0 at Wal-Mart of all places. That was my first introduction to Linux. Mandrake was easy enough that I could fumble through and learned a ton in the process. Grateful for its existence and the fact that they had a retail version for someone without reliable Internet access at the time

[โ€“] amoroso@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

At the time I used Slackware and Red Hat which definitely required tweaking at least xorg.conf and more.