Slackware and then SuSE 7.2, I think it was.
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Slackware here, and I still use it! Tried several alternatives but I just keep going back.
Red hat Linux which was followed by slack sometime back in the 90s.
Ubuntu around 2006-2007, not sure the exact one I used.
Slackware 3.0, so must have been late 1995 to early/mid 1996. It was included with the book Linux Unleashed, I believe.
I recall having to rebuild the kernel to get sound drivers working (voxware, if I recall). I can't remember if they were included with the kernel, or if I had to patch it. I followed the directions in the book, presumably including updating LILO, and it actually worked. I think that if I broke the kernel, there's a good chance I'd've given up on Linux at that point, so good thing it worked first try!
RedHat here in the late 90s, back when you could still find yourself writing a "modeline."
Then Debian in the early 00s when apt was still a major discriminator. Finally, Ubuntu around 2008 just so I was running the same thing I was recommending to family members for ease of use. (At the time, Ubuntu sported the same ease of installation and hardware detection I'd found with Knoppix.)
Now on Xubuntu, but seriously eyeing a return to Debian.
RedHat in the mid-late 90s here too. It wasn't a great time for the linux desktop haha. I think I used afterstep or windowmaker back then. RPM hell was bad and hosed my system enough that Debian was like a savior with apt-get. Never really looked back from debian based systems since.
Ubuntu and Kali almost at the same time