Very first was MKLinux, A Linux port that worked on early Macs. I can't remember if it was a Motorola or PowerPC processor.
This was the mid 90's. I had a lot of fun getting it to work.

Redhat - 1994 Maybe
 

Have looked at 100's of distro's since then but always seem to go back to Debian

lol

Slackware was awesome at the time because it FORCED you to understand the hardware. It seriously taught me a ton about the machine itself and things like managing interrupts, addressable memory space, etc. The installers and things being so modularized now have removed the need to know it at that deep of a level. But, I do appreciate what it taught me.

Slackware
 

My friend Steve got me into Slackware and I'm still there!

My first distribution was Ubuntu in the year 2014

Mi first was Red Hat Linux CD-Edition buying a magazine called "Solo Linux" around 2000, more or less.

Red Hat 4.x about 1997

Mandrake, must have been 8.0. Later changed its name to Manvdirva.

First Linux??? Wow!
 

Hmmm, well 1996 was the year when I downloaded Red Hat, then caldera, then Slackware, then Debian. I tried them all but came up short replacing the office systems we were using except that I made a router out of a superannuated pentium II computer to tie in with the local phone company's 5600 baud modem and later the local phone's ADSL (about 1998). I do remember passing the sanity test for linux by configuring sendmail, once and never again, adding mailserver capability to the local network.

An NGO in our small town wanted to take over our operations for IT and they had stuff at least 10 times faster than us, as in switches where we had hubs (you know the old coaxial cable-TV type cable which any bonehead deciding to move his computer could put down by unscrewing the cable from the T-junction rather than disconnecting the comp from the intact cable and T-junct. Their price for one windows workstation was our annual budget for our 12 computers. So I installed linux-mandrake (later mandrake linux then mandriva) on all of our machines and used StarOffice/OpenOffice. We had a windows machine that caught printer jobs for our Laser printer but the support hardware was so lacking that an 84 page print job of regulations downloaded from a government site would take more than an hour to begin printing. Still, not bad for an annual budget for computing of less than $6000.

So I would say Mandrake was my first real distro which supported a local government office that had a catchment area of 36,000 square miles.

But the NGO converted the local government to Windows after a local government election, and I found myself moving from Alaska to Paris to work Quality Assurance for Mandrake for a while.

These days I use Zorin OS because it is easy to teach others to use it, and I use some system or other with a KDE desktop handy. My carpal tunnels do not permit much direct console typing with any speed, even after surgical relief, so I depend on mousing around quite a bit. Currently, I favor some Archlinux variants for myself, most particularly Manjaro Linux.

Ubuntu
 

Ubuntu 9.04

SLS 1.02 in 1992
Then Slackware in 1993

My first used distro was RH9 which I used to setup an IPTables firewall and a Sendmail e-mail server. I used to spend many happy hours blocking ip addresses of spam users trying to hack into the Sendmail until one day someone discovered the vulnerability which allowed them to relay spam thru my server. Then there was a change of provider and now my Win10 machines are plugged straight into the internet behind a bit of ip masquerading. Have looked at more modern distros but all seems so complicated now!

I'm still on 18.04 on my main notebook, but things are starting to break. Formal support ended last April. I'm trying to amass the necessary gumption for a clean install of 22.04. Post install customization takes me forever.

My first Linux Operating System
 

Ubuntu Mate was my first Linux OS, which was many years ago. Starting using it when Ubuntu was just starting.

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Fedora

I've tried so many. . . .
 

I started using Linux less than a year ago. Since then, I've tried out, installed so many different Distros that I really can't remember them all. However, the majority were Ubuntu based, and for the time being I'm sticking with Kubuntu.

Started with SUSE Linux (I think that's how it was called back then) circa 2004. Didn't go far as I didn't have enough PC knowledge yet to succeed in installing it and setting it up to work with my computer. Eventually my PC knowledge improved and Ubuntu (which made everything easier) came out so I was a regular Linux user around 2006. Since then I have tried more distributions than I can count or even remember and I have ended up with Fedora for the past few years.

Mandrake

Debian 2.2 (Potato) 2000

Ancient thread, but mine was MCC (Manchester Computer Centre), it probably came on 2 floppies (boot and root), and I can't remember if X11 was included or if that was an extra floppy.

Xandros Desktop Professional 4.1

slack (redhat) Debian (madrake, FC)

I kind of forgot but it could be probably debian (etch).

Before Linux some systems I used were under SunOS, or HP-UX (yuck), there were these Sun workstations, and also Apollo.
Before that at school we used an HP-1000, running RTE, a huge memory of 1 or 2 (?) MB allowed like 20 students to do their work using 16kb partitions (or 32 kb for those with heavy tasks). As the "assistant" (student helping the staff part-time) I had to boot it on saturdays mornings, to do that we had to select the boot address ("word" address of 16 bits) in binary on the key panel, I think I still remember it, like 15-14-13-9-7-6-0), and then load it in the address register with a button.

Centos server on work and home nas/router, Ubuntu for Desktop. Went back to Windows for desktop for a decade+ but used always Centos as server.
Then i became a Linux all in and are like a fox in a chicken farm testing it all. Learned that everything is a compromise.

[QUOTE=MickeJ;6430396 Learned that everything is a compromise.[/QUOTE] Well said!

ubuntu 6.? got the cd from mail, dial up days.
still have 8.4 with the box as desktop, compwiz.

So Long Ago
 

Found Linux back in 1992, I think. bought a book with a CD in it. no distro back then just a TMW or something like that window manager and I thought the desktop eyes were cool. pain in the butt to install

I started about a year and a half ago, I quickly tried a number of different Distros, if my recollection is correct my first was SOLUS with the KDE Desktop.

Slackware from the 90's, when I built my first computer. A 286 or 386sx then.

Zenwalk, one university professor request us to install a linux distro and I had an strange case, my pc was very old (a pentium II still being used around 2008) and don't had cd/dvd drive to boot, but I found that Zenwalk (as other Slackware distros) can boot using an iso from the hard drive always that the hard drive will be in fat format, and using a FreeDos disquette to run the boot loader, in perspective was very complex and I had a bit of luck because work at first attempts without damage in windows

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) for me. I remember becoming interested in Linux earlier, during Feisty Fawn, but decided to wait until Gutsy was released before installing it.

I've tried loads of distros over the years now, but currently use PopOS on my PC and Alma on my server. My favourite distro is probably Slackware thanks to its simplicity - it was the first distro on which I managed to get a custom kernel and FDE working properly (and reliably!)

Same. :-)

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Happy New Year 2024!

It was one of the early 2000s RedHat releases it had to have been either RedHat 2.0 or 3.0. From there I went backward to Debain and eventually Ubuntu, CentOS fedora, and a whole bucket list worth of other Distributions.

As crazy as it is, I first got into linux through LFS