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.

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

Linux Mint 20. I got my first computer and was choosing an operating system. I didn’t even understand differences between Windows and GNU+Linux, but it was faster, UI was consistent, and the community was actually supportive. Most issues I had were already solved so I could find solutions online easily. r/linuxmint also led me to creating a Reddit account xD

Meanwhile support for Windows looked like: Turn it off and on again, run sfc /scannow, dism, chkdsk, you may need to reinstall Windows.
So I went with Mint.
Funny, but at first when I didn’t know about “Distributions” I was searching for just pure Linux. Poor old me didn’t know I was accidentally searching for the kernel.

Welp, the laptop broke after 2 months (hardware), but it was old. I definitely don’t miss that Athlon 64.

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

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

I didn’t know about Linux until I was in my late teens, and even then didn’t care because I was a “Gamer” (ugh). My first disto was Ubuntu. I have used many distros but like debain the most.

Linux Mint in like 2018. Now i use Debian.

#!

Ubuntu 8.04 in 2008, with its live CD.

ubuntu around 2003

Gentoo, fall 2004, first a stage 3, then a stage 1. Learned SO MUCH from doing that!

SLS in ‘94

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).