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First must've been Caldera Linux in 1996 or 1997. Absolutely wild to compare with contemporaries at the time.

Ubuntu 8.10. My XP install had gotten corrupted and I didn’t own a disc copy of Windows. One of the tech support ladies at my school gave me a copy. Once I discovered the desktop cube and GTK themes I was hooked.

First one I tried was suse. Had it installed at an installfest (ah those heady days). But when I got it home it wouldn't work with my monitor.

Second I bought Mandrake, but couldn't get that to work either because I had lost my monitor manual and couldn't give it the vsync value for it.

First one I got to work was called LibraNet. That worked great for a couple of years until they stopped supporting it because it was run by a father and son team and the father passed away.

So then I chose suse again, hoping a bigger org wouldn't suffer the same problem. But then later there was some controversy I can't remember anymore (was it with microsoft?), so I switched to Kubuntu which I have been using forever, but am going to switch to opensuse very soon for various reasons.

Fun trivia: used KDE on every one of them.

My first linux distro was i dunno how many years ago. Ubuntu I gave a old dell inspirion with an althlon to one of our church members at the time, no idea what happened to that laptop.

Currently I'm using linux mint due to recommendations for being easy, just recently switched from windows 11 actually.

Slackware, circa 1995. Kernel 1.2.8

Ubuntu 5.04 back in like 2004-2005. Although I did pick up RedHat 5 back in the late 90s but never managed to get it installed... Because I was like 11 or 12 lol

open suse (or was it mandrake? idk) around 2006. I remember trying it, and thinking "wow. This is trash" and then sticking with windows for 10 more years until giving ubuntu a try (and sticking to it). I tried other non-debian linuxes since then, but they all gave me that "wow, trash"-kind of feeling

DLD with some 2.0 kernel.

Ubuntu

Suse Linux before it was opensuse

Linux Mint 20 (MATE).
Almost Arch or Gentoo due to trolls.

I'd also like to mention that was when I got my first computer and I first had to figure out what's an OS.
I got it used, and it already had ~~Windows~~ free DVD burner pre-installed. I didn't have any flash drive, why would I anyway? I just managed to dig out one single DVD-RW.

Ubuntu 6.04. It was really simple to get it up and running even back then.

rocky linux 8 on a vm (rocky is a tablet os to me)

Fedora 7

SuSE Linux 6.0 I believe. Its been a while and I was very young then...

Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)

Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years later❤️.

Zorin :D

Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.

Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os

Debian Lenny in 1999.

I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.

*ubuntu (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu 10.04 -> Kubuntu 12.04) -> Debian 8 (KDE). Debian since then.

Ubuntu

Technically the first distro i used was Lubuntu 10.04, but it was only a live cd because i was 13 by then and i was terrified that i installed linux and my father got angry at me if i left any evidence. The first one i used as a full SO to use as i like, Raspbian, so debian (wheezy, i believe).

Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara

Kind of just been going down the convenience route.

Ubuntu, then Mint, now Arch, but I'm too inexperienced for it and want to try Kubuntu for native KDE with Plasma desktop.

is he forcing her to look at the screen?

Ubuntu studio 🤣🤣🤣

ChromeOS (more it's Debian Container)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

Distrohopping every view Weeks

KDE Neon

NixOS

My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.

Edubuntu, IT@School

Fedora,

I will never repeat that mistake again, it was more like Dementor.

Something that ran from loadlin, I can't remember. Slackware, probably.

Red Hat 6 in college.

Mandrake Linux 7 at home.

In 2000

Slackware circa 1996

Think it was pop OS because "gaming" but never really had Linux as main os on my pc because gaming and modding and few other things that are just more complicated compared to what I'm used to. Being told to just use arch also does not help when I don't want to use terminal. And also don't know if you can run vr on Linux without problems. Current have installed mint on second drive(HDD) will start looking more into Linux when windows 10 stops getting support. But I'm a noob so what do I know.

Ubuntu back in 09 or so.

I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.

@Waffelson First effort was Corel Linux back in 1999. The experience was so bad that I didn't try linux again until 2008, and it finally stuck 6 years ago. Now i'm all in.

I used Ubuntu, during the GNOME 2 + Compiz days. God I wish for those days to have a comeback. I've kept a bit of an eye on Wayfire for that reason.