How was your first experience installing linux?

Dont, prepare yourself using a virtual machine, then when you are ready do it
As for me
>wanted to set up a minecraft server
>core 2 duo 2 gigs of ram
>okay.tiff
>search distros
rufus that shit into my zip disquette
>put it in
>moans.ogg
>do 3 clicks
>write some fiddle
>BOOM its done
>search for a bukkit jar
>install
>put my plugins
>biddi badda boing my server is zoink
That was 2 months ago, today i learned how to ssh into my system and life is maximum comfy, linux isnt hard if you dont so hard things
As for OP
>printers
Bitch ass printers work half the time with 2 OSes tops, i remember i needed a second partition with windows vista just because my first and last printer only worked with fucking vista

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>friend tells me to install ubuntu 12.04
>install it
>realize there's nothing else to do
>browse the internet for 6 months
>want to okay vidya, go back to windows
Repeat on an off again for a while. On Linux for 3 years now. See absolutely no change for 99% of my computer activities

dude just install freebsd in a VM then pass-through the usb port to the vm then make a freebsd jail and install cups and read the udev source code to learn the syntax to the udev.rules file that will allow the /dev/ulpt0 device to be exposed to the jail and if you have a Samsung printer don't forget to install the splix packages. once that is done just set up the printer in loonix as a typical shared cups printer.

You must be one of those iToddlers I keep hearing about.

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This dude knows
Althought i kinda dislike openbsd, im not really a fan of the whole "heres the terminal figure the rest out bucko" thing they do, what do you guys find in it that i dont?

True story:
>In the software section of the local discount store
>See a box with Red Hat 7.2
>Read about Linux in a magazine, figure I'll try it out
>No idea you can get it for free
>Buy the software and head home to install on an old IBM compatible
>Read the manual, manage to get it to boot
>Try to start X, screen full of errors
>Manual is no help
>Head to AltaVista to get some help
>Can't find anything related to the errors
>Give up

Maybe I should have Googled the errors instead.

What did you expect when all you use your computer for is web browsing and playing with games?

pretty uneventful, Xubuntu 7.04 or so

>How was your first experience installing linux?
Didnt have a clue what I was doing.
Saw .rpm files in folder - clicked on everything. They did something ;-)
2004-ish

>2005
>Ubuntu 5.04 CD arrives in mail
>install on cheap compaq desktop
>wait
>wait
>wait
>finished
>why is everything all brown and orange looking?
>start trying out applications
>everything fucking works
>feel so satisfied with having a completely free OS that I buy my parents a cheap desktop and put ubuntu on it for them too
>they have an easy time working with the pinstripe os x-type theme I installed for them, because of the high contrast and big UI elements
>I'm using lignux
>my parents are using lignux (they only check email and news sites)
>haven't stopped using lignux since
Feels good

this was pretty much my experience setting up a print server on a freenas box, but linux isn't any better try setting up a network on a ubuntu server box after they switched to netplan not knowing that the god damn config file is white space sensitive so the shit you are copy and pasting form a tutorial to get the machine online doesn't work.

The problem with open source is that it is a moving target and the tutorials and documentation is always out of date.

was scared about fucking up my drive but ended up being really easy and it werks

never went back

God this, except it was Intel and with an early version of Ubuntu.

didn't expect much I guess
just didn't expect everything to just werk

>you can install Linux on your PS3 and it's like a real computer!
>use YellowDog Linux because it's designed for the PS3's type of processor apparently
>buy it for $50 because I didn't have a way to burn CD/DVDs at home
>it totally works
>bored after 15 minutes
A more "real" install was Mint. I really liked the layout and immediately noticed how much snappier it was than Windows 7.

Ubuntu wouldn't boot because of some stupid GPU issue. For all it's proclaimed beginner friendliness, it failed on something as basic as that. A few months later I tried again and solved it by disabling the GPU on boot, logging in, installing the Nvidia drivers and restarting normally

No, the fucking error messages didn't help. Jesus those messages were cryptic as fuck

>install Ubuntu
>like it
>immediately go back to Windows 7 however so I can play my games (Starcraft II and League at the time).
>This was 9 years ago.

>Clicked through the installation.

>easily created bootable disk of ubuntu using rufus
>reboot computer
>click "install ubuntu"
>click "next" a few times
>now for the tricky part, I had to select in the setting that I want to use properly driver to make my wifi adapter works, otherwise I can only use ethernet
>get the feeling that ubuntu is not "elite" enough
>start downloading other distro iso (arch, fedora, gentoo)
>start with arch, try to install it
>as I see the install process is not as straightforward and simple as unbuntu's i have a sudden realization
>i shouldn't try to make things more complicated than they need to be
>switch back to ubuntu, as it just werks
I might consider switching to another just werks distro if they do get rid of 32 bit in the next version, and if it turns out to be an issue for my use case.

>installing ubuntu
>doesn't detect sound card or some shit
>spend 30 minutes looking for a working driver because its x64
>doesn't work
>check sound settings and play around by changing devices
>one device instantly blasts high pitched feedback at full volume in my ears
>several drives and dead ear cells later, i find a sound driver that sort of works

>x64
Yes, as opposed to x32 and x16.

>couldn't get it to connect to my bluetooth headphones (best I could get after 2 hours was picking up my headphones as a mic)
>can't use EndNote or word
>can't install games or pretty much any software you hear about and want to try

other than that, it was pretty damn good

>games
Gay.

Literally every step of the way was a flashing nine-foot-high neon sign to go back to Windows.

>download and install Ubuntu 5.10 with Gnome 2
>install compiz
>play around with the amazing set of desktop effects
>3D desktop cube with an aquarium inside and raining effects
>can draw with fire on the desktop
>customize GTK and icon themes, as well as window decorations
>install counter strike in WINE
>it works, but doesn't run great
>notice I didn't have "nvidia drivers" installed
>go to nvidia.com and install their linux drivers
>reboot, X won't start anymore
>reinstall
>notice I've fucked up my boot loader and its config
>can't detect Windows anymore
>forced to use Ubuntu for an entire month because too lazy to fix it
that's where it all started

Slackware in like 1997.

It was fucking awful.

Ubuntu 10.10 installed on a spare PATA drive.
Installation was quick, duel-booting worked out of the box, and the system was much more responsive than my primary Win7 even with all the crap like wobbly windows enabled.

Still better than what Microsoft and Apple were offering.

Sophomore in HS, installed debian on a red netbook because Windows sucked ass. Install was easy, can't remember if I had to sideload drivers for it though.

Installed Arch on my new laptop. About two months later it started crashing. The thing would hardlock and I had to restart it via power button. After some time I figured out it was the amdgpu module that was at fault, which wad weord since I was using the integrated intel graphics with Xorg anyway.
The only solution I found was to blacklist the module. From tine to time I try reenabling the module to see if it has been fixed, but to no avail.
This happend around the time linux 5.1 got released, maybe a bit earlier.

>Apple wrote the CUPS printing system used by Linux
>it doesnt work
Im not surprised

macOS > linux > windows.
i have tried all three if it werent for linux sometimes breaking and its bad ui i would probably say it's better than macOS

bad bad
I tried installing arch, since I had never used a shell I failed miserably. The next morning I went with with manjaro, I clicked 3 times and it was done.

i forgot to unplug the usb stick or something so i fucked up the boot loader lol, next one was fine, after that i tried arch and i forgot to write the disk partitions lol, then installed successfully the next time

installing shit is easy as long as you are following the instructions

>install pop!OS (yes, i know) because emasculated tech canadian namedropped it
>itwerks.tiff
>spend 30 seconds to clone wattmangtk repo and install
good
>spend 20 minutes figuring out how to make a shortcut / startmenu item in gnome
bad
>switching to my OC'd bios profile, the kernel just refuses to load
>some user here spoonfeeds me the boot parameters to disable c-states, which should be the crux
>no cigar
Oh well, can't have it all

What i really appreciate is the apt thing:
>poll software repo
>find something you like
>install it with one (1) command
>don't give a fuck about dependencies, because apt does the thinking for you
>update all your software with one (1) command

Way better than windows does it. Once navi support is in the mainline kernel, i'll probably switch my main pc over aswell. Here's hoping that >muh gaems with >muh anticheat work, r6 Siege, to be exact.

Printers were created by Satan.

Easy and very positive
First one for me was Karmic Koala

Mostly everything worked aside from the fingerprint sensor which I never used anyway

Netplan is maximum comfyness.

Easy. It was Ubuntu LTS a few years ago.

Install Ubuntu 16.04
Break it twice.
Third time I made it worked and loved it.

My first Linux install was a Suse flavor back in the early 00s. I had no idea of a terminal and quickly ran into problems. At that time, sites like stackoverflow did not exist and solving problems was a pain in the ass.

Around 2010 I started setting up Linux servers a lot and got very accustomed to using the terminal.

A month ago, I switched by my desktop from windows 10 to Kubuntu. Omg, it is phantastic. The only thing that keeps coming me back is PowerPoint and other office applications and an Outlook installation with 10 or more email addresses that will be a pain to migrate.

Why?

What bad UI? The "current modern desktop environment" aka Windows 10 UI was "inspired by" KDE 5. There are also many desktop environments if you don't like using arguably the best one as well as endless amounts of UI tweaks/themes.

>install some Linux distro
>doesn't even know what he's doing or installing
>most likely went with Debian and their no proprietary software policy
>most likely also skipped installing printer drivers in the initial process
>b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but it's shit and it isn't working
I imagine this is how it went down.

>Fall into the thinkpad meme
>Get t420
>investigate beginner friendly linux
>install ubuntu
>shitty maclike interface
>thinkpad heats a lot, fan problem
>thinkpad discharges battery in an hour
>you must install thinfan and thinbatter and thinkmeme for this
>install
>you have to tweak it
>try to tweak
>battery still drains
>fan still not working
>no games
>ask on mongolian basketweaving forum
>hurr why you want to play games
>hurr I'm a neckbeard who uses linux for 20 years why you can't tweak it

>uninstall
>install windows 7
>less smooth installization but lenovo drivers work just fine
>thinkfan works just fine
>batter works just fine
>all dem 2000-2010 games
>proud patriotic feeling of sharing my data with government

I'll never fall for linuxmeme again.

>install linux
>get shot
I hate being american.

Cool story Mr. Microsoft PR manager.

Resized my Windows 95 partition, installed Red Hat and used loadlin to boot.
It was pretty easy.

Arch it’s the answer here. You’ll learn enough about GNU/Linux to fix your own problems.
Install it in a VM first...

Needed a tutorial, was quick and easy to install.

>Install Mandrivia and Windows XP
>dual boots fine
>dies for no reason
Fucking Dell proprietary parts. Good thing I got it for free.

>Ubuntu live usb with persistence
worked like a charm

>Ubuntu again with said live usb, installed on my desktop
worked great again

10.04 Noonuntu, just werked