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I'm sorry about that ... my english is poor, but next time .. I will make my best ..

I answered PCLinuxOS although technically it wasn't my first... It was however the second distro that I used for any length of time. The first was actually Xandros!

I played with a few different Linux installs when I first heard of it. Ubuntu was my first actual install (5.04 IIRC). It was a total disaster (issues with my ATi graphics card...) so I gave up. I tried 5.10 and 6.06 too. 6.06 was the first distro that I actually managed to get to a 'workable' stage, although it still had buggy issues and I managed to destroy it beyond repair (for my means at the time anyway... other than reinstall that is - which I didn't bother...)

In 2007 I bought an EeePC 701 which came pre-installed with Xandros. It was much more stable and much less buggy than the previous Ubuntu installs I had used... It was great because it used UnionFS so I could play to my hearts content then reset it once I broke it. I found the apt cache (/var/cache/apt) which I would copy out to USB so I could get it back up to date quick and easy after reset. That really started to get me hooked!

Then the first distro that I installed and actually used on a 'proper' computer and stuck with for some time was PCLinuxOS 2007. I had that running for quite a few months IIRC. It was from a highly customised remastered ISO design specifically for WinXP users which worked for me at the time.

After that died I went back to Ubuntu (8.04) and that was when I got hooked totally, fell in love with Gnome and haven't looked back!

Actually started with openBSD, then mandriva, openSUSE, now linux mint on all computers. Used an old computer with windows xp just to drive an old laser printer with only centronics connection. Just found a usb to centronics cable for a few bucks that works great, got rid of xp computer. Now I am strictly on linux and android, even my wife uses linux mint.

SuSE 6.4 back in 2000 I believe it was.

First post from me. My first linux distro..... I actually started using was Linux Storm on one CD. Then Ubuntu. I went totally into using linux after my Windows XP computer got locked up by a virus that claimed I had DLed copyrighted material and had to pay a fine to release my computer.
I currently use Puppy Slacko and Precise and can no longer use FotoXX in them. It keeps telling me I must install exiftool something 8 and I have installed the latest version.

Ubuntu

My first was an Ubuntu 9.10 back in 2009 on an Intel P4. I was in 9th grade and I came across a tech. magazine which gave an Ubuntu ISO. Installed it using Wubi and there started my linux journey. After that I tried almost all distros that came along with the mag's DVDs.

I am another Newbie on this forum. My journey to open source started from library. I saw linux journals and magazines in computer section and started taking interest in getting more info. Our college labs were running popular windows operating system which had have been pretty nontransparent in its process. First linux I install on my pc was Fedora 9.0 followed by Suse and Ubuntu. Since than I have never look back and still on Ubuntu

I first tried Linux... 04, 05? I was barely into my teens if at all. Dad had made this Knoppix LiveCD when the XP drive failed on our Pentium 4. The LiveCD bit didn't surprise me unlike how most people would've reacted, as I come from a System 7 background (Mac OS install CDs/Floppies were Live until OS X came out ) I do remember enjoying the simplicity behind the KDE 3 desktop (before I knew the whole concept behind desktop environments, haha!), and being outright addicted to Frozen Bubble.

Since then I've experimented with Linux on a lot of our PowerPC Macs. Ubuntu to Kubuntu, experiments with Puppy and SuSE (bad memories with Puppy :P), putting Xubuntu on an old PBG3, and eventually I finally got an eMachines (cause dad was tired of me buying PowerBooks xD) with Linpus installed as my 16th birthday present (2009)

On that thing, never gave Linpus a 'startx', instead chose one of the *buntus (I think Kubuntu), started having fun with Fedora, then took the guts to jump straight to Slackware and even FreeBSD. Got a MacBook Pro, dual booted with Kubuntu, gave it away to grandma two years later. In the meantime re-tried Ubuntu on the eMachine (It has been my favorite setup thus far), and eventually settled with Slackware up until this January, when I tried Arch. I honestly love Arch :]

My life with Linux is basically one experiment after another, and with only one exception (Ubuntu 10.10 running on a Power Mac 7500 as a Web Server!), I've honestly never kept a Linux install on my computers for more than a year and a half. One setup actually ended up lasting less than a week in 2012 :P

I guess Linux distros are like jelly bean flavors: They're numerous, most of them are great, they all have the same base, and you just wanna try em all

I started my Linux journey in 1999 with RedHat 5.1

Technically, the first distro I used (which was in 2004), was Amigo Linux. Although I soon converted it to a full Slackware install.

My first ever was RedHat Linux. I think it was version 5.1, which I bought as a 4 CD set way back in the day Back when you had to use the mount command to get a CD running. I didn't use it that much because it didn't recognize half of my PC's hardware.

Would be a long time before I started using Linux again. When it got a bit more user friendly. Grew up using Windows, so yeah all that command typing was never (and still isn't) my cup of tea

Sadly, my first Linux distro was Mint. Wish I'd known about this sooner. Now running the MATE desktop as it is friendlier for the old XP machines that I am re-birthing.

PJ

mine was pardus. it is dead now.
voted slackware because it was my second.

Mine was BOB