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I can't remember if it was Ubuntu or openSUSE, but I read about both in a PC magazine around 2005-2006 and had to try them out. I'm guessing it was probably openSUSE as it has a cooler logo.

I think it was Debian! My dad had an old cd of it and we live booted into it for fun like almost 20 years ago.

Gentoo circa 2002. Soooooo over my capabilities at the time

Had to use red hat for a cyber security class in college, but I tinkered with Ubuntu back in highschool. I had no idea what I was doing lmao

Slackware. And it was a bitch to get everything working is all I remember.

Corel Linux, I doubt anyone else here knows it especially used it. Very user friendly, got me into linux.

I played with SuSE 6.2 for a while in 1999 but only really turned to Linux in 2001 with Mandrake Linux 8.0.

I think it was mint or elementry

Lubuntu 12.04 IIRC

Zenwalk. Not sure why...

My first contact with linux was with Ubuntu Server 14.04 when I started my first minecraft project with a friend. We decided to try setting up the server on a VPS instead of using a hosting provider that takes care of all the setup and stuff automatically. That was one heck of a journey, but gave me a good quickstart into linux. Nowadays I use linux as a daily driver at home and for the entirety of my server infrastructure.

attempted Debian and Suse, but first one I got installed and actually used for awhile was a Stage 1 Gentoo build

Slackware to start with, then redhat which seemed very slick and convenient in comparison. Had to drive all the way across the city to buy it on several CDs from some bloke cos my dial up internet was not up to the task. Then I found Debian and stuck with it for about 20yrs, but I think I had some kind of broadband by that point.

Fedora from a cd around 2006

I think mint, but after that Ubuntu and kubuntu since ~gutsy.

Some version of Ubuntu around the time they were doing the Ubuntu phone

Fedora, then moved on Debian after I did break my install 😌 No windows since 2013 and snowden reveals.

My mom brought me a disk of mandrake Linux. I tried it and I was pretty lost.

Ubuntu, which I pretty much only installed so I could also install compiz fusion because it looked badass. Nothing like a 3D cube for my multiple desktops, and windows that jiggle when I move them and burn up when I close them.

Officially it was Raspberry Pi OS although I had messed around with Mint and Ubuntu a bit before that.

Ubuntu -> Manjaro -> Pop! OS

Caldera, followed by redhat followed by Slackware which I stayed on for quite a while.

Red Hat mid 90s and then Slackware, Red Hat was more polished but I learnt so much more from Slackware.

Slackware. Don't remember the version.

The first I had for work was Ubuntu.

Mandrake 7.1 - it was aweful.

Ubuntu > OpenSuse > Mint

Tried some others along the way but didn't liked them.

Debian... would recommend

Some really old ubuntu version running in a folder in my windows partition. It kept crashing and uninstall was just removing the folder. Another os was beos which ran from a folder too.

I tried Caldera first, but could never get it to boot. The first one I managed to actually use was Ubuntu 5.10, and that's what got Linux to be my daily driver. Lots of distro-hopping later, I'm still daily driving Linux, Debian these days.

I couldn't run Linux on my PC due too lack of hardware support at the time, but FreeBSD had support, so I ran that for a couple of years until Linux caught up.

At that time, there wasn't much choice when it came to distros. These days, it's a little bit of everything. Arch on my daily driver, RHEL on my ERP and DB servers, Ubuntu server on my Dev server, and I'm planning on deploying NixOS across the 700 PCs at our different locations.

I distrohopped at the start, no idea what I started with but the first one I settled on was Solus. Still a big fan of Budgie, and the OS felt easy to use, yet had the possibility to download stuff like Spotify as well.

Manjaro for a while. It broke a few times and then I started using Nix os, until I started using Endeavour.

Ubuntu as my shitty thinkpad with Windows XP lagged like hell. It was improvement, but geeks on the internet keep saying that Ubuntu is slow and bloated. This motivated me to distrohop and finally landed with Arch Linux. Prob 8+ years with this OS 😂

Ubuntu. If I remember correctly it was in 2016. I do remember that it was still using the Unity desktop environment, which was pretty good in my opinion. I didn't know anything about Linux back then, and I tried to run Minecraft on it through WINE. It didn't work lol.

Ubuntu 7.04

Ubuntu. But that was an office pc so pretty limited. Mint was the first ever I installed and stayed there for a few years.

I started on Arch and it's the only distro I've ever really loved.

Rhel 5? Maybe 6. It was regular gnome in the early 2000s, and we had Solaris too, but no app. My first distro on my own machine was Ubuntu

I got to use ubuntu in school, but never really got into it. When I started getting annoyed by windows I wanted to move to debian (which I bonked the install for and never got to work). After some shuffling around I settled with Mint (Cinnamon), which I've used since and like very much.

OpenSUSE 10.2 I think. Then Ubuntu 7.04. Stuck with it until they moved to the Unity DE.
Then Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu...
Recently moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon as I got fed up of more of the base system being Snaps.
I did try Mint MATE but the need for more modern built in features won over the nostalgia 🤣

some 20 years back: Suse 7.0, my first PC, reinstalled it every week, cause me dumb dumb back then and it was not very easy to use as well.

Fedora 6. Had to use it to build a server for my A+ class. Good times.