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It's all a blur because I was maybe like 6 or 7 at the time, but I'm fairly certain it was Red Hat. The original, not RHEL.
I have vivid memories of playing a game that involved collecting gems and avoiding falling rocks in a maze, similar to Boulder Dash or Emerald Mine. I have no idea what it was, but I know it wasn't Rocks'n'Diamonds because I played that a lot and the graphics were different.
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.
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.
10 years ago Arch and it was a bloodbath. No background and both IT bros said I should not do it. Took about 4 days and countless rescues, so much manual fstab editing, looking up what the thing I destroyed even is. Glorious times. Dual boot because I thought I might need windows, not anymore.
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.
This is the weirdest attempt to get my website security question answers... But... Slackware on floppies.
for me it was: Puppy Linux for a desktop machine with 254MB of RAM when I was on 1-2nd semester in Preparatory School
Redhat 4.? I'm not really sure of the precise version but it was sometime in the late 99 or early 2000.
Arch Linux. Took me 9 days and several reinstalls to get to a working window manager.
I learned on Red Hat back in the 90s
I had got a copy for free some place, so I taught myself how to install and use it
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.
Slackware, floppies, my 486.
Lindows lmao
RedHat 5.2, purchased in a plastic-wrapped cardboard box from Best Buy. God I'm old 😭
Same....
Kubuntu 6.06. Got the CD with a computer magazine that had a good tutorial on how to install the thing next to a pre-existing Windows partition. To this day I miss the look of KDE 3!
Ubuntu back in 2005.
Linux Mint
DLD 5 in 1998, a colleague at work handed me a CDR and said "i think this might be something for you", and he was right ;)
My first distro was OpenSUSE (or SuSE Linux back then) sometime around 2002. I picked it up out of curiosity in a book shop. They were selling the handbook, bundled with a DVD with the actual OS. It looked something like this. And thus started decades of distro hopping.
Installed and tinkered with Mandrake 6.0 First full time: Ubuntu 04-10. Warty Warthog
Slackware 7, year 2000. Never seen linux before. Thanks to help from IT geek next door managed to boot net-installer it from single 3.5". After many hours managed do finally get xfree86 working. As far as I remember it was running with KDE.
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.
Some version of Ubuntu. I got a free laptop that didn't have an operating system so I just put linux on it because I didn't want to buy windows.
Deepin
i think the first one i tried was Ubuntu 7.04 when i was just messing around with linux on an old Windows XP Machine. A few years later I ran Mint on my laptop and now I'm kind of getting back into it with Manjaro on my current old laptop lol.
No better way to learn about linux than to just try it out
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...
Started using Linux a year ago. My friend recommended Manjaro (not a good distro) because he himself used Arch. I was a little to stupid to use Manjaro at the time so I moved to Ubuntu, then Kali and finally Arch which is what I use now. I have practiced some distrohopping with Arco, Vanilla, Archcraft and my favourite Gentoo.In the future I want to dabble with LFS and Gentoo but I do see myself using Arch from this point forward. Linux is such an amazing operating system and it has taught me very much. Also use Neovim.
Ubuntu with Gnome Classic.
Redhat lol back in the 90’s
I forget whether I did Mandrake or Redhat first. This was on a 3.5" floppy, heh.
Old GenToo, when I finally got off of dial-up, was an interesting experience. Building everything from the ground up definitely taught me a lot.
These days, I mostly use Ubuntu at home (and various at work). I may give mint a shot, however.
I started back on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It was so much prettier than Windows, it got 11 yr. old me into hosting web servers
God I am old, I remember before kali rebranded 😭.
Phlak and Knoppix were mine. Neither lasted long since I couldn't install it on my home computer. The first one I installed as a dual boot was Ubuntu. While I have strayed from them over the years they have been my daily driver for the better part of 15 years
I think it was Debian! My dad had an old cd of it and we live booted into it for fun like almost 20 years ago.
attempted Debian and Suse, but first one I got installed and actually used for awhile was a Stage 1 Gentoo build
SuSe Linux from an installation CD about twenty years ago. A right royal pain in the arse it was.
Not sure but it was slackware or red hat in 1997
I spent weeks installing Linux in 2002, finally got it up and running and was like wow this is barely usable.
Turns out I had a fundamental misunderstanding, and there were pre-made distributions of it for you to use! Took me two years to realize that. Picked up Ubuntu and it just worked (other than wifi)
I am not really sure but I think it was yggdrasil. I remember loading a ton of floppies one after the other. 5 1/4 inch ones too!
RHEL 2.3, still have the cd somewhere