Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago
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Slackware, probably in 1997. My cousin lent me his copy, had like 100 floppies for the install.
Red Hat 5.1 CD from a magazine. Ended up at fedora and couldn't be happier.
the family computer running ubuntu from 2010 on. I used it mainly for Web browsing and creating presentations for School. I was able to run League of Legends (that was in 2014 i think) through wine but i think it crashed in about 50% of Games during the loading screen :D. Linux gaming has truly come far since then (and now LoL doesn't run on Linux at all because of Riots Rootkit)
Slackware, circa 1995. Kernel 1.2.8
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.
Edubuntu, IT@School
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.
RHEL desktop 4 when it was still free and I was in middle 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
Tried Redhat in the late 90s, but I really started using Linux with Mandrake, a few years later.
Ubuntu back in 09 or so.
Debian was first Linux, Sun was first UNIX.
Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Endeavour, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.
Red Hat 6 in college.
Mandrake Linux 7 at home.
In 2000
Xubuntu in a vm on win10, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Kde, and now Nix.
I used Fedora the longest and OpenSuse the shortest as Kde reminded me so much of horrible windows. I've also tried a lot of other distros in a vm or live usb, Linux Mint, Mubuntu, Void linux, the one without any Gnu component(Artix?) and some other ones. I also have ISOs of some other esoteric Oses on my computer, DebianHurd, Redox, can't even remember rn but I'm yet to try them out.
I'm mentally restraining myself from distrohopping to Guix and or FreeBSD as I doubt I'd have the same workflow I have now on NixOS. To have distrohopped this much in the space of 18 months is why I'm a failed Javascript programmer.
My first Linux experience was trying to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Power Mac G4 in college
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years laterβ€οΈ.
DLD with some 2.0 kernel.
Fedora 7
Ubuntu 5.04 back in like 2004-2005. Although I did pick up RedHat 5 back in the late 90s but never managed to get it installed... Because I was like 11 or 12 lol
SuSE Linux 6.0 I believe. Its been a while and I was very young then...
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.
Suse Linux before it was opensuse
Ubuntu on an orangepi 5 when it released, now Linux Mint dual-booted to windows (haven't booted into windows for ages now) on my main rig. I'll figure out making VR work at some point I hope, it's all I really use windows for now.
Ubuntu 6.04. It was really simple to get it up and running even back then.
Ubuntu in 2010 (with compiz' burning screen of course!). Got a new laptop a the time with decent to good specs and was shocked how bad it performed with the stock Win7 and bloated with bloatware (it was a Sony).
Zorin :D
@Waffelson First effort was Corel Linux back in 1999. The experience was so bad that I didn't try linux again until 2008, and it finally stuck 6 years ago. Now i'm all in.
My first linux distro was i dunno how many years ago. Ubuntu I gave a old dell inspirion with an althlon to one of our church members at the time, no idea what happened to that laptop.
Currently I'm using linux mint due to recommendations for being easy, just recently switched from windows 11 actually.
First one I tried was suse. Had it installed at an installfest (ah those heady days). But when I got it home it wouldn't work with my monitor.
Second I bought Mandrake, but couldn't get that to work either because I had lost my monitor manual and couldn't give it the vsync value for it.
First one I got to work was called LibraNet. That worked great for a couple of years until they stopped supporting it because it was run by a father and son team and the father passed away.
So then I chose suse again, hoping a bigger org wouldn't suffer the same problem. But then later there was some controversy I can't remember anymore (was it with microsoft?), so I switched to Kubuntu which I have been using forever, but am going to switch to opensuse very soon for various reasons.
Fun trivia: used KDE on every one of them.
Debian Lenny in 1999.
I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.
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, manjaro was my first real foray into linux. I hopped to arch about a week later.
It's been like 5 years now. Please help.