Fedora from a cd around 2006
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Redhat. I can't remember the version, but I found it at Fry's electronics in early 2000. Using Fedora now.
Ubuntu. I think it was around when Unity was starting off.
Iirc it was actually Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu, since I liked the idea of Ubuntu but found it's UI atrocious
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.
OpenSuse with KDE on a Netbook
Raw linux: Android
Raw desktop OS : ChromeOS
GNU/Linux : Ubuntu 18.09
Current : Debian 12
Centos in like 2008... idk the version, i had to learn how to set up a basic internal http server with a sql database or something from zero. It was fun.
My first was Ubuntu about a decade ago. Didn't stick with it at the time. I wouldn't choose Ubuntu for almost any purpose today, but I think at the time it was fine. (By "almost" I mean that there possibly exists a good use case, but I cannot currently think of one.)
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
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.
Manjaro, that is the distro in my families computer
Ubuntu > OpenSuse > Mint
Tried some others along the way but didn't liked them.
Back in 2004, I had a SuSE Linux professional 9.2 on 5 CDs and 2 DVDs. I repeat: SEVEN DISKS!! Even without internet access - which I did not have at that time - it felt like all apps accessible through packet manager. You just had to swap discs when prompted. I just took it out in fond memory... SuSE Linux 9.2
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, 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.
Ubuntu 21.10
Zenwalk. Not sure why...
My first contact with linux was with Ubuntu Server 14.04 when I started my first minecraft project with a friend. We decided to try setting up the server on a VPS instead of using a hosting provider that takes care of all the setup and stuff automatically. That was one heck of a journey, but gave me a good quickstart into linux. Nowadays I use linux as a daily driver at home and for the entirety of my server infrastructure.
Slackware. And it was a bitch to get everything working is all I remember.
My mom brought me a disk of mandrake Linux. I tried it and I was pretty lost.
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.
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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.
Some really old ubuntu version running in a folder in my windows partition. It kept crashing and uninstall was just removing the folder. Another os was beos which ran from a folder too.
Ubuntu 5.04 for a day because the name sounded funny and had one of the free CDs at home.
Ubuntu 10.04 in an airport because someone told me it was the free version of macOS and I was really into Macs.
Ubuntu 16.04 properly later because coding is easy with Linux
Ubuntu. If I remember correctly it was in 2016. I do remember that it was still using the Unity desktop environment, which was pretty good in my opinion. I didn't know anything about Linux back then, and I tried to run Minecraft on it through WINE. It didn't work lol.
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. Don't remember the version.
The first I had for work was Ubuntu.
Minix.
But then I wised up and switched to FreeBSD.
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.
Some version of Ubuntu around the time they were doing the Ubuntu phone
attempted Debian and Suse, but first one I got installed and actually used for awhile was a Stage 1 Gentoo build
Manjaro for a while. It broke a few times and then I started using Nix os, until I started using Endeavour.
In highschool my tech teacher was handing out official Ubuntu discs . That's when I first heard of Linux . Was probably about 15 of
I tried Caldera first, but could never get it to boot. The first one I managed to actually use was Ubuntu 5.10, and that's what got Linux to be my daily driver. Lots of distro-hopping later, I'm still daily driving Linux, Debian these days.
Debian... would recommend
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.
Officially it was Raspberry Pi OS although I had messed around with Mint and Ubuntu a bit before that.
Caldera, followed by redhat followed by Slackware which I stayed on for quite a while.
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 😂
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.