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Slackware in 1998 I think, from a cd that came in a book I bought while in university.
It didn’t stick, but it demystified it and I’ve used a lot of flavours of *nix since then.
I remember not being able to get sound to work at all on my pentium computer.
Slackware gang!!!
Slackware was my first intel Linux. First linux ever was red hat for DEC alpha. Quite weird after OSF/1.
Still use slackware, though mostly now actual work is done on debian, arch, and alpine.