10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Red Hat Linux first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“After Mandrake/Red Hat it was like a miracle.”
regret · personal · ilyt · 2023-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had problems back in the 1990s with Red Hat 2 and Red Hat 4 and dependency hell”
regret · personal · dxs · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Not really the first time Red Hat leaves users high and dry - also happened when they made Red Hat non-free”
regret · personal · loloquhwonedeo · 2020-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Heck it wasn't even that bad back then with my Dell C600 and RedHat 7”
neutral · personal · bluedino · 2017-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The next one - for my studies - was a 486DX33 8MB RAM machine with Windows 3.1, soon RedHat Linux (1995).”
neutral · personal · Noseshine · 2016-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Used Ubuntu prior to that, and RedHat prior to that.”
neutral · personal · ishbits · 2014-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Linux as my main desktop starting with Red hat 5.1, so that's got to be almost 15 years ago.”
neutral · personal · omerhj · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Red Hat was my first peek at linux, so I'm a tad nostalgic (remember 9.1? crux, luxi sans?).”
neutral · personal · arh68 · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally went from Red Hat (3 i think), to Mandrake Linux, to Debian, to Gentoo”
neutral · personal · gks · 2011-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I must have installed RH5.1 many times on my Pentium”
neutral · personal · blinkingled · 2011-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?