Red Hat 6 in college.
Mandrake Linux 7 at home.
In 2000
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*ubuntu (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu 10.04 -> Kubuntu 12.04) -> Debian 8 (KDE). Debian since then.
Tried Redhat in the late 90s, but I really started using Linux with Mandrake, a few years later.
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
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years laterβ€οΈ.
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.
I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.
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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Fedora,
I will never repeat that mistake again, it was more like Dementor.
I eventually switched to fedora after using linux for a while and I love it
My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.
Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago
Ubuntu
ChromeOS (more it's Debian Container)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Distrohopping every view Weeks
KDE Neon
NixOS
Debian Lenny in 1999.
fedora π
Ubuntu
slackware around 1996. the install was about thirteen floppies.
Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara
Kind of just been going down the convenience route.
Ubuntu studio π€£π€£π€£
Fedora Core, I don't remember exactly which version it was.
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)
rocky linux 8 on a vm (rocky is a tablet os to me)
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.
Slackware, probably in 1997. My cousin lent me his copy, had like 100 floppies for the install.
Edubuntu, IT@School
I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.
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.
Ubuntu back in 09 or so.
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).
Red Hat 5.1 CD from a magazine. Ended up at fedora and couldn't be happier.
SuSE Linux 6.0 I believe. Its been a while and I was very young then...
Ubuntu 8.10. My XP install had gotten corrupted and I didnβt 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.
Nobara, yea I switched less than a year 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.
tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
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