"You stay with what you started on".

[jpenguin]

I started with KDE on peanut Linux around '01

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[Teunis]

Phospores, you know the stuff that made old CRT screens light up

[bweinel]

Not so much here... linux has been a progression.

My first linux based software was SLS 0.99pl11A on a whole bunch of floppy disks in 1993 (...like 60-70 of them.) I was running a Fidonet BBS at the time and looking for better O/S software. After spending lots and lots of time loading floppies onto a spare PC I had, I made it to the SLS shell prompt. Ok pretty cool, but not to much use after that for my original purpose. Consequently I took a 'linux hiatus' for about 7 years and then picked it back up with RedHat. Then moved on to Mandrake, then Ubuntu, and finally Kubuntu.

So far, Kubuntu has been able to do everything I have wanted to do at the desktop level. I also run Ubuntu server and CentOS for server / backend applications.

cheers,
bill

[Achaean]

I started with Ubuntu 8.04 and I switched to KDE after a while.

[GreyGeek]

Phospores, you know the stuff that made old CRT screens light up

Ya, the monochrome monitors that used the P1 phosphors for green, the P3 for amber and the P4 for white.
They were usually detected as VT100's and required the Hercules highres graphic drivers.
Screen savers were creates specifically to avoid the dreded "phosphor burn" that occurred, showing up even if the monitor was off, if the same pattern was left on the monitors for any significant length of time.

[SteveRiley]

I spelled "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my abacus the other day and it turned into a slide rule. Can anyone help me?

[Teunis]

Surprise to see an ASCII compliant abacus and now slide rule.
Using admin privileges are known to be the cause of all sorts of curious escalations.