I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.
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Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara
Kind of just been going down the convenience route.
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Ubuntu, then Mint, now Arch, but I'm too inexperienced for it and want to try Kubuntu for native KDE with Plasma desktop.
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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.
Opensuse without knowing that it was Linux 20 years ago. Knowing was 3 years later with Mandrake.
fedora π
ChromeOS (more it's Debian Container)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Distrohopping every view Weeks
KDE Neon
NixOS
Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)
Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago
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.
My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.
I attempted to boot Mandrake/Mandrivia on an old laptop once and failed, then I mucked around in Slackware's live CD for an afternoon. The first thing I actually installed and used daily was Ubuntu 10.04.
Slackware circa 1996
Technically the first distro i used was Lubuntu 10.04, but it was only a live cd because i was 13 by then and i was terrified that i installed linux and my father got angry at me if i left any evidence. The first one i used as a full SO to use as i like, Raspbian, so debian (wheezy, i believe).
*ubuntu (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu 10.04 -> Kubuntu 12.04) -> Debian 8 (KDE). Debian since then.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
SuSE linux 4.2 about 1994-6 ish? Fond memories of having to roll my own modelines to get crt monitors working. Used the various versions until the sell out to Novell and the controversy with Microsoft. Then a really big gap with some macs and now Iβve just started using Mint on a mini itx machine Iβve put together just for that use.
Red Hat 6 in college.
Mandrake Linux 7 at home.
In 2000
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
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years laterβ€οΈ.
Elementary OS 6 Years ago
MkLinux around 1997, but mostly NetBSD back then.
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
Ubuntu back in 09 or so.
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
I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.
Tried Redhat in the late 90s, but I really started using Linux with Mandrake, a few years later.
Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago
tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
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.
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.
Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os
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.
KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good
Debian 4 lyf
Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers
Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.