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.

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 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.

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 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