Slackware here, and I still use it! Tried several alternatives but I just keep going back.

Slackware and then SuSE 7.2, I think it was.

Red hat Linux which was followed by slack sometime back in the 90s.

Ubuntu around 2006-2007, not sure the exact one I used.

Mandrake Linux 6.5. At the time I was drawn to it because they had a version that worked with the sims game.

My first distro was Manjaro. It was really cool, but also I remember having some trouble getting things to work on it without super extensive troubleshooting.

As a daily driver, Manjaro. It was a lot more stable than people would have you believe.

When I was still dual-booting with Windows, I used Ubuntu Server 14.04 for university stuff - I SSH’d into my home PC for programming classes. Needless to say, I was the stereotypical Linux dickhead (and didn’t even use Arch at the time, btw).

Redhat installed from 3.5" floppies. Don’t remember what year it was.

Linux Mint in like 2018. Now i use Debian.

OpenBSD on the Amiga in 95-96 or so.

Slackware 3.0, so must have been late 1995 to early/mid 1996. It was included with the book Linux Unleashed, I believe.

I recall having to rebuild the kernel to get sound drivers working (voxware, if I recall). I can’t remember if they were included with the kernel, or if I had to patch it. I followed the directions in the book, presumably including updating LILO, and it actually worked. I think that if I broke the kernel, there’s a good chance I’d’ve given up on Linux at that point, so good thing it worked first try!

Ubuntu 8.04 in 2008, with its live CD.

It was around 2001 and I started by dual booting Windows with Red Hat, don’t remember which version. Eventually I dropped Windows and dropped the dual boot and switched from Red Hat to Ubuntu.

S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 in 1998. Didn’t use Linux full time then, but S.u.S.E. got me acquainted with my future OS.

I’m serious arch