Red Hat mid 90s and then Slackware, Red Hat was more polished but I learnt so much more from Slackware.
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Debian... would recommend
I think mint, but after that Ubuntu and kubuntu since ~gutsy.
Caldera, followed by redhat followed by Slackware which I stayed on for quite a while.
My mom brought me a disk of mandrake Linux. I tried it and I was pretty lost.
Zenwalk. Not sure why...
Officially it was Raspberry Pi OS although I had messed around with Mint and Ubuntu a bit before that.
Fedora, then moved on Debian after I did break my install 😌 No windows since 2013 and snowden reveals.
Corel Linux, I doubt anyone else here knows it especially used it. Very user friendly, got me into linux.
Absolutely remember and used Corel. We old people are fading fast. haha
Mandrake 7.1 - it was aweful.
Ubuntu 7.04
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
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. But that was an office pc so pretty limited. Mint was the first ever I installed and stayed there for a few years.
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.
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.
Started using Linux a year ago. My friend recommended Manjaro (not a good distro) because he himself used Arch. I was a little to stupid to use Manjaro at the time so I moved to Ubuntu, then Kali and finally Arch which is what I use now. I have practiced some distrohopping with Arco, Vanilla, Archcraft and my favourite Gentoo.In the future I want to dabble with LFS and Gentoo but I do see myself using Arch from this point forward. Linux is such an amazing operating system and it has taught me very much. Also use Neovim.
Manjaro GMOME was my first distro on hardware (had Ubuntu in VMs before)
Some version of Ubuntu. I got a free laptop that didn't have an operating system so I just put linux on it because I didn't want to buy windows.
Fedora 6. Had to use it to build a server for my A+ class. Good times.
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 on 1st year of college
The first distro I used was Guadalinex, a distro developed by my Government (Andalusia, Spain) for education. I used it at school.
The first distro I installed was Ubuntu.
The first distro I daily drived was Fedora.
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RHEL 2.3, still have the cd somewhere
I first tried Ubuntu because it was the only one I new of besides arch and I heard that arch was hard. I hated Ubuntu immediately and started distro hopping. I'm on Debian 12 now which is the longest I've been on a single distro.
Minix.
But then I wised up and switched to FreeBSD.
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
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
My first was Ubuntu about a decade ago. Didn't stick with it at the time. I wouldn't choose Ubuntu for almost any purpose today, but I think at the time it was fine. (By "almost" I mean that there possibly exists a good use case, but I cannot currently think of one.)
Centos in like 2008... idk the version, i had to learn how to set up a basic internal http server with a sql database or something from zero. It was fun.
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.
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.