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Mike Hill/Getty Images In the decades since I started using Linux, I've experienced just about every distribution ever created, some of which were user-friendly and some of which were not. In some cases, I was determined to use them just for the bragging rights that I'd installed and used one of the most challenging operating systems on the planet. Other times, I just needed something to work out of the box. Also: 5 ways to use the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET In the decades since I started using Linux, I've experienced just about every distribution ever created, some of which were user-friendly and some of which were not. In some cases, I was determined to use them just for the bragging rights that I'd installed and used one of the most challenging operating systems on the planet. Other times, I just needed something to work out of the box. Also: Miss old-school Linux? This distro will take you back to the early 2000s
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Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET To this day, I can still remember the first time I logged into Linux and how it looked. It was Caldera Open Linux 1.0 with the Fvwm95 desktop. It was ugly (even at the time) and completely different from any desktop I'd used. At the same time, it was a lot of fun learning something completely different while also discovering what a truly stable operating system could be. It's been a long, long time since those first steps, and every so often, I feel t
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Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET After using Linux for a while, switching from one distribution to another becomes a fairly easy task. You know the landscape, and you understand the choices and how they are pieced together, so the decision becomes second nature. Also: The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 -- and it's not even close But those early days can be filled with confusion, especially when trying to choose a distribution. The list goes on and on and on. In
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Distrowatch When I first started using and writing about Linux in the late 1990s, there were just a few distributions to choose from, and even those were a bit hard to discover (unless you knew the right bulletin board or mailing list to join). I remember asking around and chatting about new distributions we'd discovered with Linux user groups -- which were actual face-to-face meetings! There was a bit of mystery to it all. But then things started to change. This underground movement was brou
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