Debian Lenny in 1999.
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Ubuntu 8.10. My XP install had gotten corrupted and I didnβt 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 must've been Caldera Linux in 1996 or 1997. Absolutely wild to compare with contemporaries at the time.
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.
Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago
Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years laterβ€οΈ.
The first computer I had personally ran ubuntu, but counting other computers before that it could have been either ubuntu or centos that was first, I don't remember which
I found a distro that would install on the windows file system and boot. Apparently it was slackware based didn't have a concept in my head of package managers couldn't figure out how to install gaim (now pidgin) gave up. Didn't go back for another 4 years doing C in college. Didn't look back from there.
I tried to have a go at ubuntu but my hardware was pretty crap and it didn't work, I can't remember my first one that worked but it was probably debian or alpine or something
MkLinux around 1997, but mostly NetBSD back then.
Ubuntu back in 09 or so.
Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.
Redhat 5.2 on cd. I learned a lot about compiling kernels as it didnβt support scsi emulation which was required for an ide cd burner. I think I ended up on Mandrake for a while before bouncing around including LFS. Then gentoo for many many years. And Iβve come full circle and been back on fedora for about 10 years now.
RedHat 5.2 in 1998. The manual that came with the box set was amazing.
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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.
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
Red Hat 6 in college.
Mandrake Linux 7 at home.
In 2000
Suse linux. I didnt know what partitioning was, so I partitioned my hard drive 6 times and messed up my bootloader. I didn't know what that was too, so I had to figure out how to do all this....with a Suse linux disk from the library.
Later on, I discovered Wesnoth and that was an awesome game. I also played around with Ubuntu 6+, Slackware, DSL, and a host of others. Its been a fun ride. Nowdays, I like PopOS and Manjaro (steamdeck). Most anything debian.
Slackware circa 1996
Red Hat 5.1 CD from a magazine. Ended up at fedora and couldn't be happier.
Ubuntu 12 or 14 on a hdd
Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.
Ubuntu, opensuse, or freebsd. I can't remember what I installed first, since it was around 2006-2007. There was a piece about Linux in some PC magazine and I had to check it out.
tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good
Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers
Debian 4 lyf
Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.
Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.
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Fedora,
I will never repeat that mistake again, it was more like Dementor.
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Fedora Core 2 :)
Edubuntu, IT@School
Ubuntu because I didn't know anything about it and wanted to see if I could use it to fix my win10 account on my old laptop.
Xandros on an eeePC 901
My first Linux experience was trying to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Power Mac G4 in college
i honestly didn't do too much linux growing up; i was more involved with radio shack and trsdos and then win 3.1 (since we only had the one family computer; tandy sensation, whoo). then onto windows 2000. it was probably around the early to mid 2000s when i experimented with fedora with one of my coworkers; that was probably the first time i actually did a lot beyond basic commands ssh'ing into a web server on a web host.
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.