Manjaro GMOME was my first distro on hardware (had Ubuntu in VMs before)
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Ubuntu on 1st year of college
The first distro I used was Ubuntu as part of a computer class at school, but it was preinstalled on a school computer. The first distro I installed on a personal computer was Arch because le reddit said it was le epic hackerman's IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE TO INSTALL distro. It installed, and after that I didn't use it because my favorite Windows apps couldn't work.
Ubuntu 18.04
I first tried Ubuntu because it was the only one I knew of besides arch and I heard that arch was hard. I hated Ubuntu immediately and started distro hopping. I'm on Debian 12 now and it's the longest I've been on a single distro.
The first time I used Linux was at an old job, and we used Xubuntu for desktop, Debian for servers, and Raspbian on the Raspberry Pis, but technically Xubuntu would have been the first. I currently use KDE neon as my daily driver
Minix.
But then I wised up and switched to FreeBSD.
Back in 2004, I had a SuSE Linux professional 9.2 on 5 CDs and 2 DVDs. I repeat: SEVEN DISKS!! Even without internet access - which I did not have at that time - it felt like all apps accessible through packet manager. You just had to swap discs when prompted. I just took it out in fond memory... SuSE Linux 9.2
OpenSuse with KDE on a Netbook
My first one was OpenSUSE in the 00-years. I was hardly able to get it up and running on my worn out, home-build desktop.
Tried again later with ubuntu (Gnome) on an old Thinkpad and was taken aback about how smooth it ran just ootb.
Fedora. Core 3 or Core 4 according to Wikipedia and the fact that I recognize the names. An acquaintance suggested I try Linux, so I found info on it, didn't really understand what a distro was and settled on Fedora because I had bought O'Reilly Linux Pocket Guide that used that distro.
I switched pretty quickly after that, and used Ubuntu, Debian, then Mepis for awhile. I've run Arch, dual-booted with Windows for several years on the desktop and Debian testing on my remote server
Raw linux: Android
Raw desktop OS : ChromeOS
GNU/Linux : Ubuntu 18.09
Current : Debian 12
I started back on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It was so much prettier than Windows, it got 11 yr. old me into hosting web servers
Ubuntu!
I downloaded the installer in 2017 after MS forced an update to Windows 10 from 7. My laptop, from 2010, couldn't handle W10 and I heard Linux was good for old laptops. Not long after that I hopped around to other distros but Ubuntu was first.
Manjaro, that is the distro in my families computer
Iirc it was actually Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu, since I liked the idea of Ubuntu but found it's UI atrocious
Redhat. I can't remember the version, but I found it at Fry's electronics in early 2000. Using Fedora now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In highschool my tech teacher was handing out official Ubuntu discs . That's when I first heard of Linux . Was probably about 15 of
Mandrake ~7. Back them I had dial-up internet, but got the install CD from a magazine.
Ubuntu. I think it was around when Unity was starting off.
Red Hat
H J Lu's boot/root, followed by MCC Interim, followed by Yggrasil on CD
Mandrake Linux, there was a guide in a computer magazine I subscribed to back on 2003 I guess.