Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara
Kind of just been going down the convenience route.
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I saw some Red Hat first around 2000, then tried Mandrake on my machine around 2005.
Ubuntu
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).
ChromeOS (more it's Debian Container)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Distrohopping every view Weeks
KDE Neon
NixOS
Ubuntu studio π€£π€£π€£
My first distro was ubuntu 11.04 if I remember correctly.
Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)
I think my first was Red Hat but I'm not sure. Then I gave Gentoo a go shortly after.
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.
Nobara, yea I switched less than a year ago
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
Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.
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tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.
Mine was lubuntu that I booted off USB on school computers
Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.
KDE Neon, since it was just basic Debian it was pretty good
i honestly didn't do too much linux growing up; i was more involved with radio shack and trsdos and then win 3.1 (since we only had the one family computer; tandy sensation, whoo). then onto windows 2000. it was probably around the early to mid 2000s when i experimented with fedora with one of my coworkers; that was probably the first time i actually did a lot beyond basic commands ssh'ing into a web server on a web host.
Xandros on an eeePC 901
Ubuntu because I didn't know anything about it and wanted to see if I could use it to fix my win10 account on my old laptop.
Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Endeavour, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.
Debian was first Linux, Sun was first UNIX.
My first Linux experience was trying to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Power Mac G4 in college
Xubuntu in a vm on win10, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Kde, and now Nix.
I used Fedora the longest and OpenSuse the shortest as Kde reminded me so much of horrible windows. I've also tried a lot of other distros in a vm or live usb, Linux Mint, Mubuntu, Void linux, the one without any Gnu component(Artix?) and some other ones. I also have ISOs of some other esoteric Oses on my computer, DebianHurd, Redox, can't even remember rn but I'm yet to try them out.
I'm mentally restraining myself from distrohopping to Guix and or FreeBSD as I doubt I'd have the same workflow I have now on NixOS. To have distrohopped this much in the space of 18 months is why I'm a failed Javascript programmer.
Slackware, probably in 1997. My cousin lent me his copy, had like 100 floppies for the install.
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)
Fedora Core, I don't remember exactly which version it was.
I'm not sure if Yggdrasil or Slackware, which we tried out at the old university computers. But quickly Debian became so much more flexible.
slackware around 1996. the install was about thirteen floppies.
redacted
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, GNOMEβs UX regressed so terribly with its 3.0 release, that Canonicalβs Unity and Mintβs Cinnamon & MATE popped up as a response. One of those didnβt 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 Appleβs 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. :-)
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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.
Opensuse without knowing that it was Linux 20 years ago. Knowing was 3 years later with Mandrake.
fedora π