It's time for a poll. How long have you used Linux?

[visionhelp]

Hi.
I had to study 98 about 5 years and XP again about 5 years, until I could say, Win is in my hand, instead of being in Win´s hand.
The last years I tried - with some difficulties (everything different then Win, unkind and rejecting Linux-forums - to approach cautiously.

Alone to reach the point, to understand the precondition, the needed partitions, but here first just for Knoppix, took - lasted - years.
Now I see me in the middle - between Win and Linux, after having some first views into win10 - of both.

Current plan: Knoppix and win10 and Linux Mint Mate (21.2) onto a stick, as for ´beginning´.
(Knoppix 7.6 - on an old laptop, as replacement - did help in some months, where XP did make me some troubles, once with this TLS for Outlook Express, and once with mainbord having to change.)
My XP - with a still current held browser, MyPal - still is my reliable system, I know how to handle it.
Despite mails with Outlook Express now is gone, after TLS from the mail-providers had been changed. And for XP only hardly to set up.

So, now I am very glad, with discovering this forum, having support possible, when questions are coming up. Thank You very much for this.

Sorry, can´t delete this box.

 

[Danbor]

In December of 22 I deleted windows and installed Linux Mint on my Toshiba laptop and my 7 year old Lenovo Ideacenter desktop. Tried to get Mint on my HP office pro only to discover that the motherboard was hard coded to microsoft. That computer is now sitting on the floor of my closet. In January of thos year, I purpose built this desktop computer for Linux Mint, it's never had anything else but Mint.
I don't know if they share much history, but the Mint OS reminds me of the Amiga OS. Boy do I miss my old Amiga 500!

 

[-jnhjnh517]

I had to just establish some arbitrary numbers.

Just pick the category to which you belong.

For fun, I've made it so that you can't see the poll results unless you have also voted.

Also for fun, you can not change your vote.

(I may sticky this for a few days. I want to give folks a chance to respond.)

If you need to add a caveat, do so in the thread. Note that this is in "General Linux" and not "Off-Topic", so please try to keep it on topic.

2017 - 6 yrs

 

[joe_linux]

A friend told me about Linux back in 2008. I decided to try it. I started with Ubuntu (Hardy Heron, if I'm remembering correctly). I really liked it and played with it for years, getting excited for each new release. For some reason (probably boredom) I installed Mint onto a machine at work in 2018. That was when I first discovered Cinnamon. I thought Cinnamon was the coolest DE ever! That was before I even knew that you could install alternate DEs onto whatever system you chose. As a result I started leaning towards Mint. Then I discovered Mint was based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. So I thought I'd try LMDE (seemed like a good idea to cut out the middleman). Then I thought, "Hey, why not just try regular old Debian?" So now I have a Debian 12 machine, a Debian 11 machine, and an Ubuntu 20.04 machine (all with Cinnamon installed for the DE).

 

[joe_linux]

I had to just establish some arbitrary numbers.

Just pick the category to which you belong.

For fun, I've made it so that you can't see the poll results unless you have also voted.

Also for fun, you can not change your vote.

(I may sticky this for a few days. I want to give folks a chance to respond.)

If you need to add a caveat, do so in the thread. Note that this is in "General Linux" and not "Off-Topic", so please try to keep it on topic.

How do we "pick a category" and "vote?"

 

[KGIII]

How do we "pick a category" and "vote?"

There should be a poll at the top of this page where you can vote.

If it's not there, something is broken and beyond my control.

 

[joe_linux]

There should be a poll at the top of this page where you can vote.

If it's not there, something is broken and beyond my control.

Yeah, there's nothing up there. Darn, I was looking forward to seeing where I stand amongst the average member here.

 

[Vektor]

If there is a category for "drive by linuxing" , that is where I am.

Vektor

 

[KGIII]

Yeah, there's nothing up there. Darn, I was looking forward to seeing where I stand amongst the average member here.

Maybe try visiting the first page of the thread? You'd be around the 15 year category, so close to the middle.

If there is a category for "drive by linuxing" , that is where I am.

Vektor

No. It's also (more or less) about when you began using Linux exclusively. It's not a very scientific poll. It's not meant to be. Using this poll to extract meaningful data would be silly.

 

[rmch]

Started around 2002/2003 and saw the SCO/IBM drama. For enterprises it was Red Hat and Suse back then, although I remember one Sys Admin really liked Slackware.

 

[Vektor]

5 years for me. My Linuxmobile has the top down permanently with the Windows removed completely.

Vektor