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.
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Ubuntu, when I started studying IT after high school, my tutor was very insistent that we know about different weird things, and how tech in general worked, and because Ubuntu was so simple, that's where he started.
My mom brought me a disk of mandrake Linux. I tried it and I was pretty lost.
Fedora, then moved on Debian after I did break my install 😌 No windows since 2013 and snowden reveals.
Some version of Ubuntu around the time they were doing the Ubuntu phone
I think mint, but after that Ubuntu and kubuntu since ~gutsy.
Fedora from a cd around 2006
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.
It was SuSE 5.3, in 1998. That's about the time I went to Linux workshops with a HAM club, getting into packet radio, AX25 and stuff. Good times
Debian. Can't remember the version. I copied the images on a handful of floppy disks and ran a graphical desktop OS off 32MB of RAM and 200MB of storage.
Never really moved away from that since then, except when using a piece of hardware that came with something specific.
Gentoo circa 2002. Soooooo over my capabilities at the time
attempted Debian and Suse, but first one I got installed and actually used for awhile was a Stage 1 Gentoo build
Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu, I kept distro hopping but I still kept on coming back to it until I switched to Arch Linux.
I still use Ubuntu for my servers though.
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 🤣
Zenwalk. Not sure why...
Ubuntu on 1st year of college
Kubuntu 14.04 burned on a CD my brother gave me when I started studying programming. Switched a lot along the way and ironically ended up on Kubuntu 23.04. I love KDE.
I started on Arch and it's the only distro I've ever really loved.
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.
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.
Ubuntu. But that was an office pc so pretty limited. Mint was the first ever I installed and stayed there for a few years.
Ubuntu 7.04
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 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 😂
Manjaro for a while. It broke a few times and then I started using Nix os, until I started using Endeavour.
Corel Linux, I doubt anyone else here knows it especially used it. Very user friendly, got me into linux.
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Fedora 6. Had to use it to build a server for my A+ class. Good times.
Manjaro GMOME was my first distro on hardware (had Ubuntu in VMs before)
Mandrake Linux, there was a guide in a computer magazine I subscribed to back on 2003 I guess.
H J Lu's boot/root, followed by MCC Interim, followed by Yggrasil on CD