opensuse (11.0 from memory)

Have to agree!

Have tried a number of others as well but at the moment, PCLinuxOS is ticking the boxes so far.

Slackware.
Over the years I've used several others, but have always gone back to Slackware. Ten years, or so, ago, I decided to stick with Slackware. Every now and then I'll boot a "live disk" of some other Linux distribution, but haven't seen anything that makes me question that decision.

Slackware was first, quickly followed by ReHat, then Debian (since 1999).

Caldera OpenLinux v1.2 around 1999 or so. I paid for the cd discs and had to manually install the early version of KDE!

I love Crux also but I just can not get my Brother MFC printer to print any paper output from the 64 bit version.

Feisty Fawn

My first was a port of Red Hat to the Motorola 68060 CPU. I switched to a PC just in time for Fedora 1. When Fedora got to the stage that I felt like a hamster in a wheel trying to keep up with it, I switched to Debian. That lasted 3 weeks: I hate it! So, back to Red Hat land for CentOS.

The Salix is on a very old IBM Thinkpad, for which CentOS was a bit challenging. When CentOS 6 reaches EOL, I might more completely to Salix to avoid Gnome 3.

I want something solid and reliable, which means Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, or one of their derivatives.

Hi,

My first was Slackware and remains my main distribution of choice.

For some history; Slackware life lines are very long, be sure to look at the number of derivatives.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

My first experience with Linux was Redhat 6.0. Tried various other distros over the years. I was more seriously interested after trying Knoppix 3.0. With Knoppix being Debian based, I naturally moved to Debian, and it's been my main OS for a decade now.

I used to get copies of Turbo Linux with Linksys routers. I think I still have a Turbo Linux CD somewhere…

My first was Caldera and I bought it from a book shop. I couldn't use it due to WinMoDem and other issues.
First I installed and actually used was, I think, Red Hat (some precursor to Fedora or Fedora).
First I started to use day-to-day was Ubuntu, then Kubuntu, then bought a desktop with KMythbuntu installed.
Then I got fed up of Ubuntu's "driver manager" thingy and went Debian, but installed Mint on my EEE, then just went Debian Sid for everything.
Now I use Slackware sometimes and play with other distros in VMs.

My first distro was Red Hat 5 or 6.
I switched to SUSE when Red Hat changed the default DE to Gnome.

SuSE 5.0 and did not like it.
Afterwards SuSE 6.x and following and liked them up to 7.x

Very first Linux OS was Slackware 13.37 in Summer of 2011. After that I used Linux Mint, Fedora, Manjaro, OpenSuse, and several others until I finally found a home in Debian Stable.

Slacko Puppy.

After playing around with it (Slacko Puppy) I decided that if I wanted to learn anything about Linux I may as well go with a full blown OS, so I moved to Slackware.

Slackware

Slackware is the best distro of all Linux. In addition, Slackware never adopted Systemd !

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