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I miss that Ubuntu. You know, the one when they took the "Linux for human beings" motto seriously.
I got a 6.0ish disk after giving them an email back in the day. I also remember the UI being easily modified. It was by far the easiest linux to get up and running with drivers for a couple of years.
Probably 6.06, the first LTS release and the only one to date that was delayed from the usual April/October release timeframe
I remember being pretty excited for it
6.06 "Dapper Drake" (iirc) was my first GNU/Linux distro back in the day. I was about 15 and spent a week tinkering with it trying to get the wifi to work on my old HP Pavilion.
Good times.