Ubuntu Was My First Distro—Here's Why We Went Our Separate Ways
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I don't remember exactly how I first stumbled across Ubuntu back in high school, but it was at a time when I was discovering free and open source software in general: apps like Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, AbiWord, and OpenOffice. This was software that anyone could own, regardless of if they had the money or a "good" PC.
My brother and I shared the desktop PC we had at the time, so I couldn't risk breaking it by installing a Linux distro with zero knowledge of what I was doing. It was also almost my only lifeline to a social life. So I instead played around with Linux on a years-old laptop with the one version of Ubuntu that would run on it: Xubuntu. But without working drivers for the dial-up modem, there were limits to what I could do.