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Caldera, followed by redhat followed by Slackware which I stayed on for quite a while.

Ubuntu, when I started studying IT after high school, my tutor was very insistent that we know about different weird things, and how tech in general worked, and because Ubuntu was so simple, that's where he started.

Iirc it was actually Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu, since I liked the idea of Ubuntu but found it's UI atrocious

Red Hat mid 90s and then Slackware, Red Hat was more polished but I learnt so much more from Slackware.

I think mint, but after that Ubuntu and kubuntu since ~gutsy.

Slackware. And it was a bitch to get everything working is all I remember.

Ubuntu, which I pretty much only installed so I could also install compiz fusion because it looked badass. Nothing like a 3D cube for my multiple desktops, and windows that jiggle when I move them and burn up when I close them.

It was SuSE 5.3, in 1998. That's about the time I went to Linux workshops with a HAM club, getting into packet radio, AX25 and stuff. Good times

Zenwalk. Not sure why...

attempted Debian and Suse, but first one I got installed and actually used for awhile was a Stage 1 Gentoo build

Debian. Can't remember the version. I copied the images on a handful of floppy disks and ran a graphical desktop OS off 32MB of RAM and 200MB of storage.

Never really moved away from that since then, except when using a piece of hardware that came with something specific.

SimplyMEPIS, I really liked it & after it was discontinued I switched to Ubuntu

Kubuntu 14.04 burned on a CD my brother gave me when I started studying programming. Switched a lot along the way and ironically ended up on Kubuntu 23.04. I love KDE.

Ubuntu 21.10

Ubuntu, I kept distro hopping but I still kept on coming back to it until I switched to Arch Linux.

I still use Ubuntu for my servers though.

I played with SuSE 6.2 for a while in 1999 but only really turned to Linux in 2001 with Mandrake Linux 8.0.

Fedora from a cd around 2006

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.

I think it was mint or elementry

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

Minix.

But then I wised up and switched to FreeBSD.

In highschool my tech teacher was handing out official Ubuntu discs . That's when I first heard of Linux . Was probably about 15 of

OpenSUSE 10.2 I think. Then Ubuntu 7.04. Stuck with it until they moved to the Unity DE.
Then Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu...
Recently moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon as I got fed up of more of the base system being Snaps.
I did try Mint MATE but the need for more modern built in features won over the nostalgia 🤣

Some version of Ubuntu around the time they were doing the Ubuntu phone

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

Fedora 6. Had to use it to build a server for my A+ class. Good times.

Manjaro GMOME was my first distro on hardware (had Ubuntu in VMs before)

Mandrake ~7. Back them I had dial-up internet, but got the install CD from a magazine.

Ubuntu on 1st year of college

Slackware to start with, then redhat which seemed very slick and convenient in comparison. Had to drive all the way across the city to buy it on several CDs from some bloke cos my dial up internet was not up to the task. Then I found Debian and stuck with it for about 20yrs, but I think I had some kind of broadband by that point.

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 18.04

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.

I started on Arch and it's the only distro I've ever really loved.

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 7.04

I first tried Ubuntu because it was the only one I knew of besides arch and I heard that arch was hard. I hated Ubuntu immediately and started distro hopping. I'm on Debian 12 now and it's the longest I've been on a single distro.

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.