the most 'UNIX-like' Linux, installed from floppies, was my first Linux in the 90s, and it either predisposed me towards BSD or i was drawn to it for the same reasons.
happy 30th, Slackware!
Ah yes,
1 boot disk and 1 root disk, to create using rawrite, then the install floppies, i had to use dos, as that read the cd drive, then rawrite different disk sets to floppies to install,. so sets a1 to a5 for example were applications.
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May seem trivial but partly what sold Linux to me was the fact that if coping files, if there was filea.txt and filea.txt, rather than just having an option (as you got with DOS) to ignore or overwrite, Linux (well bash) gave me the option to rename.
And who remembers manually configuring the XFree86Config file.
@zleap i remember (and i even miss it every once in a while when i get into a fight with my work computer that runs modern Linux)