Actual first was I think knopix or whatever it was called. My friend had a bootable floppy and we booted it on a school computer.
First real daily use was Ubuntu somewhere around 2006.
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My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.
ChromeOS (more it's Debian Container)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Distrohopping every view Weeks
KDE Neon
NixOS
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.
Fedora Core 2 :)
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
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.
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, opensuse, or freebsd. I can't remember what I installed first, since it was around 2006-2007. There was a piece about Linux in some PC magazine and I had to check it out.
Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.
Ubuntu 10.04.
A walk down memory lane
I received a free CD of 10.04 with a computer magazine that I purchased every time I travelled.
The CD was neglected for the better part of that year, until I tried it out of curiosity. I remember setting up a dual boot configuration around two weeks in. I removed Windows around eve of 2011 and never looked back.
Since then I distro hopped every six months but kept coming back to Linux Mint as it nailed the balance between stability and UX, especially for the home machine that would be used by people from diverse age groups.
In those years, GNOME’s UX regressed so terribly with its 3.0 release, that Canonical’s Unity and Mint’s Cinnamon & MATE popped up as a response. One of those didn’t make it by the end of that decade. In those same years, Canonical started alienating its users with questionable decisions. Fedora and Manjaro became stable enough to be recommended for actual daily use. The 2010s was a wild ride.
Though by the start of 2020s, I entered Apple’s walled gardens as I no longer had time to troubleshoot my devices and tools, and expected those to work reliably.
I still use Linux on the home machine as well as the homelab. But I patiently wait for the day Linux is stable for daily use on phones. :-)
Same.
Ubuntu 12 or 14 on a hdd
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.
@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.
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.
Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)
Ubuntu studio 🤣🤣🤣
First must've been Caldera Linux in 1996 or 1997. Absolutely wild to compare with contemporaries at the time.
rocky linux 8 on a vm (rocky is a tablet os to me)
MkLinux around 1997, but mostly NetBSD back then.
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.
RedHat 5.2 in 1998. The manual that came with the box set was amazing.
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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.
Something that ran from loadlin, I can't remember. Slackware, probably.
Opensuse without knowing that it was Linux 20 years ago. Knowing was 3 years later with Mandrake.
Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.
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
Debian 4 lyf
Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers
tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
Pop!_OS two years ago, Pop!_OS today.
Elementary OS 6 Years ago
fedora 💀
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.
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
Ubuntu back in 09 or so.
KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good