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I think the first distribution I tried was Fedora on my PlayStation 3 around 2007. From what I remember, you had to use terminal a lot so I couldn’t do anything with it.
Then a few months later I tried Ubuntu on an old Dell computer from my father’s office.
Dual booted windows and Ubuntu for years until fully switching to Linux around 2021.
Now I’m only using Fedora with a few virtual machines for some specific needs.
Idk why but Linux on a PS3 is a dragon I will always be chasing. Was it at all usable back in the day?
From what I remember, it wasn’t difficult to set everything up.
What scared me was having to use the terminal a lot so I gave up really quickly.
Maybe Fedora was more complicated back in the days or maybe I just hadn’t noticed you could do everything with a GUI.