Net Zero? I definitely used it for a while.

Yeah, I think OP has created a false dichotomy here

This

That makes sense

I see your point, but to be fair, this is a memetic transfer of information.

300 hours? What did you install?

Edit: nm, didn’t see the community name at first

Yeah, Gentoo builds everything from source. Supposed to make it faster, but I didn’t notice enough of a difference to make it worth my while.

For me, my first exposure to Linux was around that same time, but with SuSE. It’s still my go-to distro, even though I’ve installed and used dozens of different ones. Compiling Gentoo over a weekend is a fun experience at least once.

Not certain, I haven’t installed red hat in several years.

Aww, I miss Solaris.

I’m pretty sure that both Red Hat Enterprise and SUSE Enterprise require a license key.

I have never heard of this before now

Left unity

Domain registrars are required to collect your real information and display it in the Whois database. Many registrars offer a “Whois privacy” service where they put their name and address in the database instead of yours, most charge a fee for this. That’s one thing to keep in mind.

Or Linux from scratch

Off topic, but I’d never heard of Ventoy before and looking at it now, holy shit, I wish I’d known about it sooner.

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Try it and see. It depends on your professors and what software they want to use for class. I was able to get through college just fine on Linux, but a couple classes were made easier with windows, so I ran a VM for those classes.

Fucking lol at the downvoters haha that second sentence must have rubbed them the wrong way for being too accurate.

Depending on the language