Hard to remember because it was in 2000 on my gateway PC, but I remember trying to setup Gentoo and redhat and knoppix and failing miserably.
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My first distro was SlackWare 7.
I'm not anywhere near my desktop(s) but it has largely been an Ubuntu box of differing flavors.
Though I experimented with Yoper, Knollix, SuSe, Mint, and a few other distros.
Ubuntu!
I downloaded the installer in 2017 after MS forced an update to Windows 10 from 7. My laptop, from 2010, couldn't handle W10 and I heard Linux was good for old laptops. Not long after that I hopped around to other distros but Ubuntu was first.
Manjaro, that is the distro in my families computer
Mandrake like in 2003.
Debian 2.2 on a consulting job in 2001. I'd used Unix mainframes in college, but other than that had only ever done work on DOS and Windows before then. Didn't think much of it at the time, though it was familiar and easy to work with. Certainly a far cry from the experience we all have with Linux today.
It was SuSE 5.3, in 1998. That's about the time I went to Linux workshops with a HAM club, getting into packet radio, AX25 and stuff. Good times
Debian. Can't remember the version. I copied the images on a handful of floppy disks and ran a graphical desktop OS off 32MB of RAM and 200MB of storage.
Never really moved away from that since then, except when using a piece of hardware that came with something specific.
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Ubuntu 21.10
Kubuntu 14.04 burned on a CD my brother gave me when I started studying programming. Switched a lot along the way and ironically ended up on Kubuntu 23.04. I love KDE.
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake :)
In highschool my tech teacher was handing out official Ubuntu discs . That's when I first heard of Linux . Was probably about 15 of
Mandrake ~7. Back them I had dial-up internet, but got the install CD from a magazine.
Ubuntu. I think it was around when Unity was starting off.
The very first Linux? That would be DSL (Damn Small Linux).
I don't know whether it still exists but in 2003-ish, I was looking for something on-the-go and came across DSL.
I recently (2 years now) started using Linux as a daily driver again. Had to learn a lot of new things. This time someone on GamingOnLinux adviced me to start with Mint. But it wasn't for me. So it's been a great journey.
I have fond memories of DSL! Sadly it hasn't been updated since 2012. I think nowadays people use tinycore for that.
Knoppix in 2006, arch today.
Knoppix here as well.
Ubuntu 8.04, and I got it on one of those free discs they used to send out.
Same! 8.04 was a great introduction. Though I learned about wifi drivers the hard way back then...
The first distro I used was Guadalinex, a distro developed by my Government (Andalusia, Spain) for education. I used it at school.
The first distro I installed was Ubuntu.
The first distro I daily drived was Fedora.
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Slackware 0.97 (if I recall correctly) it must’ve been in 1993 I think
Which Kernel was that? I used Slackware with the 1.0.20 kernel.
Phew… digging deep in my memories. I am almost certain it was pre-1.0.
We got it from our Prolog teacher at school. It was a huge stack of disks. I think we compiled the kernel on a daily basis to tweak things, or get hardware working. Fun times!
Oh god it's been so long (20+ years). I only remember that whatever distro I installed had that great game preinstalled in which Tux slides down a mountain. Ah... Nice memories of easier times.
Manjaro GMOME was my first distro on hardware (had Ubuntu in VMs before)
Fedora from a cd around 2006