What has your experience with Linux been like so far? How long has been your Linux journey? Mine began while I was studying computer science, and I’ve been in love with Linux since.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Oh yeah. Ubuntu really simplified everything.

    My first distro on my own PC was Mandrake. I don’t know how many times I had to reinstall it because of my fuckups.

    Two years later I was compiling my own kernel with the source code of special modules that I had downloaded for my NVidia card that had composite video input.

    I’ve never had to compile a kernel since Ubuntu. I completely forgot to be honest.

    • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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      1 month ago

      God, I’m soooo glad you don’t need to compile anything anymore. I spent my entire early 20’s debugging C compile errors building LAMP stacks… I had forgotten (blocked out?) how many things you used to need to compile yourself…