Windows 95, Knoppix and Mandrake Linux.
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Whatever Commodore 64 ran, back when I was a little kid in the early 90s.
MS-DOS 5 or 6. I guess technically I used whatever Apple IIes had, first, but really I just loaded games from disk.
DOS. Not sure what version, I was far too young to care. But not so young I couldnβt learn how to operate a command line interface!
Windows 3.11
First OS: MS-DOS, I reckon around v3 - was running on an IBM XT PC.
First Linux distro: Slackware, came on a CD-ROM on the front of a PC magazine.
MS DOS v4.somthing. (1995)
Slackware that came on three 5.25" floppies. (1997)
First hard drive Linux: Debian.
Eventually red hat for several years, then back to Debian based (mint etc) around 2005. Been using Sid (Debian "unstable") for a long time.
DOS -> win95 -> win98 -> debian (and i'm still here 24 years later...)
If you could call it an OS, ZX spectrum basic was my first. My first Linux was Slackware 6 or 7 installed from a string of floppies. Good times.
C64 -> MS-DOS 3 -> 4DOS -> Win 95 -> Win 2000 -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> chaotic smattering of various distros that changed almost weekly -> Mint -> Arch -> Manjaro -> MXLinux -> SteamOS (SteamDeck), Rasbian.
Windows 98, Windows XP, Ubuntu 6.06, some other distros on and off, Arch Linux is the last OS I would ever need for desktop PC btw
PC-DOS on an IBM 5150 (iirc).
my first was windows for workgroups 3.11 with msdos 6.22 back in 1994; later upgraded to windows 95.
my first linux as mandrake linux (aka mandriva) in 2002 on kernel 2. i use linux fulltime now and no longer own a windows computer.
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. 2007. I was looking for new and exotic ways to avoid writing papers.
Comodore 64 os in the late 80's then msdos, win 3.1, etc. First Linux distro i believe was either slackware or debian.
First operating system was DOS 4 or 5, I think. On big 5.25β floppy disks on an 8088. Unless weβre counting whatever was running on a commodore vic20.
My first Linux distribution was Red hat Linux, somewhere around 1997, 1998 and I had a really tough time getting it installed.
I also once had a trial version of os/2 warp. Which was fun but pointless.
There's a few things from dos that have a permanent place my soul. A:/KEEN.exe, idkfa, iddqd and gorillas.
DOS/Win3.1 I was pretty young. It was far back enough that it was still common to find Apple II's in my grade-school classrooms off to the side for when we had downtime. I regret that I was just a little too young to experience the Commodore 64 craze.
First OS was Windows XP and first Linux distro was Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS), but on my main computer the first distro I used regularly was Ubuntu
First OS was C64's Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 GEOS, if that even counts as an OS, the next was Amiga 500's AmigaOS
First Linux distro was Fedora
Windows 1998 on a Pentium2. First linux distro was Ubuntu, uh....8.04 I think ? That was much later.
Whatever an Apple IIe ran. Some sort of DOS from what I remember.
First linux distro was Ubuntu but I used it in VM but the actual daily driver was Archlinux. I think Windows XP was the first OS which i used on computer(In home sure but in school maybe it was Windows 97?)
Windows β Mint β Windows β Void β NixOS
First OS: MS-DOS 5
First Linux (many years later): Yellow Dog on one of those dome-shaped iMacs with the PPC chips
First OS windows 95 First linux distro ubuntu Currently manjaro, windows 11, macos
Macintosh System 7. Then I moved to Windows 98, which was the style at the time.
Commodore ROM BASIC; 1980
First OSish was what came default with the Commodore 64. My first full fledged OS was Windows 3.11. My first Linux distro was Mandrake I think 6.
First OS: DOS 4.something on dad's PCXT clone.
First Linux: Kurumin Linux
CP/M on a Kaypro II. My uncle was a contractor for the US air force. Even had a modem - a wooden box he built to hold a telephone handset.
Fun times.
The first one I remember using was good old Windows 98.
First os was whatever was on a apple II. First linux was fedora. I spent 9 years using various red hat disteos as my main work machine.
Gaming kept me on windows at home. Now that proton let's me game i've been running mint debian for over a year and loving it.
My wife uses arch btw.
School: if it wasnβt a Macintosh Plus it was something like it. We were given very little time with it and had to go to a special computer room to use them so I donβt remember a lot of specifics about it, beyond the school tech guy having to painstakingly load each program we wanted to use manually from a floppy
Home: Windows 3.1. I donβt think we got the internet until Windows 95, though
Microsoft Extended BASIC
Technically (but only very technically as we basically never used them and they were obsolete at the time already) it would have been a version of Acorn MOS but realistically it was Windows 3.1.
First operating system was probably either Windows 98 or Windows 2000. First Linux operating system was Ubuntu 10.10.
Windows '95. My mom didn't know the concept of backwards incompatibility and got it second hand in 2001. It was hard to find something that would run on it beyond Doom.
Le menu.