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Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.

RedHat 5.2 in 1998. The manual that came with the box set was amazing.

OpenSUSE back in the early 2000s. Since my parents got a new PC and the old one from '99 wasnt able to run Windows XP properly

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.

MkLinux around 1997, but mostly NetBSD back then.

Slackware circa 1996

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

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.

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.

I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.

Something that ran from loadlin, I can't remember. Slackware, probably.

Redhat 5.2 on cd. I learned a lot about compiling kernels as it didn’t 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 I’ve come full circle and been back on fedora for about 10 years now.

Pop!_OS two years ago, Pop!_OS today.

Opensuse without knowing that it was Linux 20 years ago. Knowing was 3 years later with Mandrake.

Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.

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

KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good

tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.

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

fedora 💀

I'm not sure if Yggdrasil or Slackware, which we tried out at the old university computers. But quickly Debian became so much more flexible.

Ubuntu

Why do I not see any pop os comments... My first was (and is) pop os

Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers

Debian 4 lyf

Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago

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.

Ubuntu 12 or 14 on a hdd

Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.

Fedora Core 2 :)

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Elementary OS 6 Years ago

Ubuntu 8.10. My XP install had gotten corrupted and I didn’t 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.

Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.

First must've been Caldera Linux in 1996 or 1997. Absolutely wild to compare with contemporaries at the time.