really useful was Debian

Xandros. Tried it, installed it dual-boot, circa 2004.

Tried - Fedora Core, Vector, Damn Small, Puppy, Linspire, PCLinuxOS, Suse/openSuse, Mandriva, Bodhi, Knoppix (yes, I installed it once, too), Zorin. There are three or four I've forgotten. Ultimate is waiting in the wings. (If it's near as good as it seems to be, it may become my main OS. I like Unity on Ubuntu, can't abide Compiz nor the removal or hiding of too many configuration settings. I prefer Gnome to KDE (no flames, please. I've tried, and like, KDE, but simply prefer Gnome.))

Used - Xandros, Vector, Fedora Core/Fedora, openSuse, Ubuntu.

Current install is Ubuntu 64-bit desktop; main/default OS since 2009.

From memory it was called Watchtower. I tried it out on an Amiga2000. To set up the disk partitions, you had to manually calculate everything based on the disk geometry of the hard drive. I got it installed (command ine only. no X) and running then didn't know what to do with it once that was done.

The next time I tried Linux it was with Slackware which I seem to constantly come back to.

Another old Xandrosian! Fun and useful desktop OS while it lasted.

Any links to the JWs?

Before I used redhat I used Tomsrtbt off a floppy.
It seemed to be amazing I even got a network working.

Red hat is my first linux distro because in my office use it distro

One of the BSD's but it didn't install correctly, so I think it was Ubuntu, shortly after Mint 2.0??
Did a lot of distro hopping then

When I'm just out of college, I started learning Linux and choose Fedora core 7/8 to learn. After that i have worked on Redhat-5.5, Open Suse and now Ubuntu and Slackware.

My first distro was RedHat 5.xx. I needed a C compiler. The cracked copy of Visual Studio that I had sucked! A copy of RedHat was doing the rounds at Uni. So I grabbed it and spent hours and sleepless nights on a 486 dx getting drawn into the linux way, getting the hardware to work, configuring X, sending core-dump info to Gnome developers, kernel recompilation etc. - all the time learning. I stayed with RedHat all the way to fedora, then settled on Debian. I am always learning and enjoy every step.

YESSS. Me too. Learning is fun. And LQ comes in handy, too .

Unfortunately, I met a lot of young people who prefer to use Windows because it is simple. To work with Linux they must read a lot. Facebook &Co doesn't allow them to read )
Also, unfortunately, the schools teach just Windows and Office, not free/open software.

The first distro I tried was Red Hat 9 because it was supposed to be easy to install use and update. After trying unsuccesfully for a week to get it to install and run on my system, I researched other Distros and ran across a tag-line "When you learn Slackware, you learn Linux" (As opposed to learning a specific distro). So I installed Slackware, played with it part-time for about a year, then I realized I could do everything in Linux, I could do in Windows, so I stopped using windows.

2009 with ubuntu

red hat 6