Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that’s what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol
Fedora Core 6. Package manager kept failing so I couldn’t update or install software. So I tried Ubuntu 7.04. That one worked. Had a bunch of animations and stuff that made windows xp look like a child’s toy. Been using Linux as my daily ever since
Debian Woody > SuSE > gentoo
Still running gentoo on my main desktop and tumbleweed on my htpc
Slackware.
That was 25+ years ago. So don’t judge me.
Slackware. In 1993.
You beat me by 1 year. I switched to slackware when windows 95 came out because I liked cli from ms dos 6.22
Ubuntu, I was drawn in with the 3D cube and the ability to play games. The only game I had compatible then was TF2. So I left.
Back to it full time now, almost all games work, and on Mint
my friend (who was the it manager at one of my first jobs) had a fedora machine in 2007ish? and i loved using it. i only used linux for servers and websites for the longest time before i took the plunge into personal use though so my first personal distro was linux mint earlier this year.
Ubuntu->Manjaro->Tumbleweed
Ubuntu; I tend towards Debian Mint, if I’m choosing something more mainstream these days, but I main Guix, now.
Slackware, in 1999.
It was Ubuntu. Can’t remember which version but at the time they would mail you a cd if you requested one.
Same for me.
A friend in high school gave me one of these CD, I think it was 7.04.
Same here, though I remember it was 08.04 Hardy Heron for me. I still recall the default background too:
Brand spanking new Kali linux after it was redone from Backtrack.
Thought I was cool for 5 seconds until I saw the Kali forums tearing into the thousands of idiots like me who hadn’t touched Linux before but somehow managed to jump through the sketchy Debian installer to load an OS with a metric ton of offensive security tools that none of use knew how to use.
Eventually played with Ubuntu for home use, disliked it, tried Debian which was nice for server, saw Linus Torvalds uses Fedora for user friendly experience, and ended up there.
Raspbian Wheezy. I remember learning how to use apt-get because I wanted to see a Pi 1B run Minecraft. Minecraft Pi Edition was the first apt-get install I ever did.
My first ever distro was Xubuntu. (I did install Lubuntu before it, but found it too “ugly” so switched to Xubuntu after about 30 mins.)
I was still in high school, around 2014-15. My pc was getting old, and I read online that Linux can make your pc run faster. So, I decided to give it a try. I also read online that Xubuntu (and Lubuntu) is among the lightest of distros, so decided to install that. It was worthwhile, to say the least.
I currently use mostly EndeavourOS and AlmaLinux for my personal machines, depending on the type of the device. I have installed Fedora on my sister’s laptop, and Debian Stable on my parents’ PC, so I have to maintain those as well. Also, I have a few Pi zero2s for various things, so I use PiOS (or whatever it’s called these days) from time to time.
Slackware
Mine was also slackware. I think I broke my windows (95? 98?) installing it.
Hehe, I, too, broke my windows 95 installing Slackware.
I came from deskview and then OS/2
Caldera. I don’t know why I picked that. Later I went SuSE.
I’ve been running Debian for long while, although work was RHEL and SuSE
