Mandrake. Emailed to me on a CD. I feel old.

Mandrake in 2003, I was young and didn't know what I was doing...

Knoppix Live CD back in 2004!

It was no distro, it was kernel 0.99 and bunch of gnu utils on like 8 floppy disks, and 10 more floppies or so for X11. I was running it on a 486DX50 iirc.

Red Hat Linux back in 1999.

Slackware, dont remember the version but it was 1996.

Ubuntu. I couldn't afford a new laptop for college so I desperately googled for some way to make my old machine last.

Slackware, installed from a big stack of 3.5" disks

Slackware, and it took years before I tried again.

Mandrake 7 was the first one I installed on my pc. In those days you could buy a boxed version with about 10 cds to install from.

Mandrake 9.1.

Linux 0.2, not.joking. a friend came with it to me, just downloaded from a newsgroup (I think) around 1992, on a floppy! We tested it on my PC, didn't know what to do with it, and promptly removed it. A few years later we gave it another try, and the rest is history

A friend of mine gave me an official Ubuntu 4.10 CD and that was my first Linux distro that I have tried.

I still have that CD.

Ubuntu... before Canonical nuked it.

Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.

Knoppix in 2006, arch today.

Mint, because it's what my dad put on my first laptop when I was like 10 or something. I remember playing minetest and FTL on it.

Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake :)

Red hat linux

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Slackware 0.97 (if I recall correctly) it must’ve been in 1993 I think

@deepinder_brar Ubuntu 8.10

Mandrake ! Autumn 1999 if I remember well...

Gentoo.

Started with Red Had 6 and then moved to Fedora Core 1. Have been on Fedora releases since.

Ubuntu (can't remember if it was 6 or 8) was the first distro that I used, my cousin and another family friend used it and I got interested and asked to have it installed on my home desktop.

For years, every LTS release of Ubuntu I installed as dual boot to try and experiment for a few weeks and then uninstalled it, using Windows for everything.

2 years ago, I decided that I wanted to try other distributions and to switch and use Linux as my daily driver, so I installed Manjaro on my laptop and I have been using it daily since.

Linux Mint. It's been a while since I used Mint now, but I do missTimeshift

Debian Woody PPC. I also downloaded Yellow Dog but don't remember ever installing or using it.

Slackware. Version 3.1 if I remember rightly, with Linux kernel 2.19.x.

It was installed from floppy disks, you needed about 10 of them to do a full install including X Windows.

At the time (1997 or 1998) I only had dial up internet at home, so over the period of several days I brought blank floppies in to work, downloaded the relevant images and copied them on to the disks.

I then spent most of a weekend trying to persuade an (even then elderly) PS/2 with 4 MB of RAM to become a Linux box. Got there in the end, though!

Hard to remember because it was in 2000 on my gateway PC, but I remember trying to setup Gentoo and redhat and knoppix and failing miserably.

10 years ago Arch and it was a bloodbath. No background and both IT bros said I should not do it. Took about 4 days and countless rescues, so much manual fstab editing, looking up what the thing I destroyed even is. Glorious times. Dual boot because I thought I might need windows, not anymore.

Redhat 4.? I'm not really sure of the precise version but it was sometime in the late 99 or early 2000.

RedHat 5.2, purchased in a plastic-wrapped cardboard box from Best Buy. God I'm old 😭

I don't actively use Linux anymore but I think I first used puppy Linux in middle school. I was a strange kid and got a kick out of anything that could run off a flash drive.

Then I'd use like Ubuntu, lubuntu, and mint typically. I'm back to using windows because I only really use my computer for gaming and I honestly had a rare gift for bricking distros by installing something wrong.

Some version of Ubuntu. I forgot which version number.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Immediately liked the interface, but was bummed by lack of software and (expected) subpar performance on my shitty hardware. Went back to Windows 7 after a month or so. It took me quite a lot of hopping between many Linux distros and Windows to finally settle on Manjaro as my desktop OS of choice

I think it was probably Ubuntu 6.10. a friend from high school have me a CD to install it.

386BSD, on a 386dx processor with 4mb ram. Compiled from 24 3.5" floppies that took 24 hours to compile. Before Linux existed.

Lindows lmao

Arch. Went in at the deep end.

Suffice to say that I no longer use Linux. Got it built with relative ease though inevitably hit issues along the way, but got tired of having to use terminal for everything. Would not recommend Arch as your first distro unless you already love existing in a terminal.

Backtrack then crunchbang. Eventually I moved to arch. I've been using debian and mint lately though.

This is the weirdest attempt to get my website security question answers... But... Slackware on floppies.

Oh god it's been so long (20+ years). I only remember that whatever distro I installed had that great game preinstalled in which Tux slides down a mountain. Ah... Nice memories of easier times.

Attempted to use Red Hat 4 (pre-RHEL), but couldn't work out the partitioning. However, I tried SuSE Linux Personal 7.0 soon afterwards and YaST gave me a much smoother time when installing everything; I've been using SUSE/openSUSE ever since as my primary Linux distro.

for me it was: Puppy Linux for a desktop machine with 254MB of RAM when I was on 1-2nd semester in Preparatory School