Ubuntu 8.10. My XP install had gotten corrupted and I didn’t own a disc copy of Windows. One of the tech support ladies at my school gave me a copy. Once I discovered the desktop cube and GTK themes I was hooked.

Ubuntu, then Mint, now Arch, but I’m too inexperienced for it and want to try Kubuntu for native KDE with Plasma desktop.

*ubuntu (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu 10.04 -> Kubuntu 12.04) -> Debian 8 (KDE). Debian since then.

Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago

SuSe Linux in the early 2000s. Came on a couple of CD-ROMs. We used it to run JBoss servers at work, alongside various Unix flavours. But my first experience with Unix was in the late eighties at university. Been using Mint as my daily driver for about two years now and I’m never going back.

Some 10+ year old Ubuntu version probably. Before Unity so 10.04 maybe. Can’t say

Elementary OS 6 Years ago

Open Suse in the mid 2000s.

Debian Lenny in 1999.

Linux Mit, im still loving cinnamon

Mint was my first main. Before that there were some projects on raspbian.

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,

I will never repeat that mistake again, it was more like Dementor.