The linux mascot Xenia is such a big deal for me because
1) shes trans
2) she's a fox
3) she's into Linux

I am
1) trans
2) a fox
3) into Linux

I don't recall exactly how I got into Linux. I think I'd gotten a copy of Mandrake and then SuSE 7.2, but the big thing was definitely @darac and @dh giving me a copy of Debian (Woody or Sarge) to play around with. :)

@renbymon @darac @dh I think my intro to Linux was redhat 3, the pre RHEL redhat, back in the late 90s. Used it on my DEC P75 to share my 56k modem with my housemate. I also had a 486 with freebsd on it :)

@fatedfox @renbymon @dh I got #MyFirstLinux on a magazine cover. Mandrake Linux sounded good because it was optimized for Pentiums! Then I found the pain of installing RPMs before yum was a thing, and switched to #Debian.

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@darac @fatedfox @dh Trouble with RPMs was the entire reason that I wanted to try something that wasn't RPM based. ^^

@renbymon @darac @dh I don't recall ever having a problem with rpm, or the early days of dpkg when Leonerd introduced me to Debian :) Debian did win out for me in the end, it was just more organically intuitive to me, and remains so! (Although my linux interactions now are fairly limited - Y'all run rings around me!)

@fatedfox @renbymon @dh It was dependency management that did it for me. As I recall, installing a package consisted of downloading it, then telling rpm to install it and then being told what packages that required, so you'd download those and try again. And again. And again.

Dpkg, on the other hand, seems to have always been paired with dselect or apt to do the legwork for you.

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