Lucien [he/him]

That makes sense

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.

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.

And OP did specify “popular”, which Slackware hasn’t been since the late 90s

Absolutely nothin’!

Yeah, this article came across as if written by a complete beginner. They mention having their WordPress hacked, but failed to admit it was because they didn’t upgrade the install.