Ubuntu, it was an on-off-relationship until I finally made it
Debian -> Zorin -> Fedora -> Nobara
Kind of just been going down the convenience route.
why the fedora route
From my very casual view, it’s just Debian but, the packages are up to date and the package manager doesn’t spam the terminal. Also just been easier to use so far. Learned about Nobara not long after and that was finally enough to ditch windows.
I had the amazing luck of being introduced to linux at such a young age that i don’t remember the distro. I just remember the penguin.
But the first time I try linux for myself it was mint, of course.
SteamOS, just seeing how friendly and similar-to-windows KDE looked (and proton running all the games I cared about) gave me all the confidence I needed to install fedora and later nobara on my desktop
Slackware 3.0 in 1996
Then this new promising distro called Debian
Got my own PC, went with Slackware again for some God-forsaken reason
Debian again and that’s where I’ve stayed for most part - I tried using Ubuntu as a desktop laptop distro for a while but at some point I realised I should have installed Debian to begin with so I went with that there too
Slackware on 3.5" floppy’s FTW!
Slackware for me at about the same time. Installed from 3.5" floppys.
Slackware, either the first or the second release IIRC.
knoppix, then slax, then slackware, then… Ubuntu 4.10
SimplyMepis (RIP)
I tried Puppy with a persistent live USB first, then I used Ubuntu through WUBI for a while until it borked my MBR.
Ubuntu -> Mandriva -> Zorin -> Ubuntu -> Debian
Mandrake Linux. I’m old, I know 😊
There is another :D
Ubuntu, then Mint, now Arch, but I’m too inexperienced for it and want to try Kubuntu for native KDE with Plasma desktop.
Careful because kubuntu still silently installs snaps and I switched off it after having to do the whole ppa thing just to install Firefox correctly
Debian in the nineties :) Watched the towers fall on slashdot…
Now on bazzite, it’s also glorious.
Raspbian (Buster) for my first; Kubuntu for my longest, and still happily enjoying it!
Call me a normie if you must, I need shit to work and I like it lookin’ pretty.
Slackware 4. Nothing like having to compile your kernel depending on the hardware you hand-selected for compatibility. Then entering your monitor specs in the config files by hand to get WindowMaker to run correctly.
