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open suse (or was it mandrake? idk) around 2006. I remember trying it, and thinking "wow. This is trash" and then sticking with windows for 10 more years until giving ubuntu a try (and sticking to it). I tried other non-debian linuxes since then, but they all gave me that "wow, trash"-kind of feeling
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years later❤️.
Linux Mint 20 (MATE).
Almost Arch or Gentoo due to trolls.
I'd also like to mention that was when I got my first computer and I first had to figure out what's an OS.
I got it used, and it already had ~~Windows~~ free DVD burner pre-installed. I didn't have any flash drive, why would I anyway? I just managed to dig out one single DVD-RW.
I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.
I used Ubuntu, during the GNOME 2 + Compiz days. God I wish for those days to have a comeback. I've kept a bit of an eye on Wayfire for that reason.
I attempted to boot Mandrake/Mandrivia on an old laptop once and failed, then I mucked around in Slackware's live CD for an afternoon. The first thing I actually installed and used daily was Ubuntu 10.04.
Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago
tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers
Debian 4 lyf
Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.
Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.
OpenSUSE back in the early 2000s. Since my parents got a new PC and the old one from '99 wasnt able to run Windows XP properly
Ubuntu 12 or 14 on a hdd
Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.
I'm not sure what the first distro I installed was but I used to have a Linux VM running 24/7 on my Windows machine back in '06. I ran folding@home on my athlon 64 and for some reason the client at the time ran faster in a Linux VM on windows than it did in native windows. Pretty sure I was running Ubuntu but I can't be certain.
manjaro
Several floppies of Slackware.
Some 10+ year old Ubuntu version probably. Before Unity so 10.04 maybe. Can't say