My first Linux Distro

I consider myself a noob at Linux and computers in general. I am not trained in the IT discipline, what I know about computers have always come from the things that I had to pick along the way, when I needed to work (or play) with computers.

The first time I remember ever having to use a computer was when I was 10 years old, or probably younger. I did not even recognize what kind of operating system I was using at the time. Ever since then, I've been using several OSes along the way on several PCs, and now I can even build my own PCs.

The first Microsoft OS I remember using was Windows 98. Then it was Win98SE, Win ME, WinXP. For me who was born into a MS dominated OS world, there was no reason to consider the alternatives. I didn't even know if there were alternatives. Happily switched to Win Vista, quite happy with it for a while, then switched to Win7.

It was around this time, that I started trying out Linux distros. Unsurprisingly, my first distro was Ubuntu 10.10. However, my reasons for trying Ubuntu linux were a bit, peculiar. I did not exactly googled for "linux", "first linux to try for noob" or other related search terms as most would expect. I had an inspiration to try out linux when I was browsing videos on collegehumor youtube channel. At the end of one of their videos, the protagonist said something about Ubuntu.

"Ubuntu? I am going to learn Ubuntu?"

which is of course a parody of a line by Neo in The Matrix, when he was about to learn Ju-jitsu. That is how I started googling for Ubuntu and trying it out.

This happened sometime end of 2010. And so, I installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 32-bit edition on my old Toshiba laptop, cause I thought cool name, what the heck, let's give it a shot. Ubuntu 10.10 ran pretty good on my laptop, with the all-famous Gnome 2 Desktop Environment at the time.

Everything was gold... (or Orange).