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i honestly didn't do too much linux growing up; i was more involved with radio shack and trsdos and then win 3.1 (since we only had the one family computer; tandy sensation, whoo). then onto windows 2000. it was probably around the early to mid 2000s when i experimented with fedora with one of my coworkers; that was probably the first time i actually did a lot beyond basic commands ssh'ing into a web server on a web host.
Debian was first Linux, Sun was first UNIX.
Slackware, probably in 1997. My cousin lent me his copy, had like 100 floppies for the install.
Xubuntu in a vm on win10, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Kde, and now Nix.
I used Fedora the longest and OpenSuse the shortest as Kde reminded me so much of horrible windows. I've also tried a lot of other distros in a vm or live usb, Linux Mint, Mubuntu, Void linux, the one without any Gnu component(Artix?) and some other ones. I also have ISOs of some other esoteric Oses on my computer, DebianHurd, Redox, can't even remember rn but I'm yet to try them out.
I'm mentally restraining myself from distrohopping to Guix and or FreeBSD as I doubt I'd have the same workflow I have now on NixOS. To have distrohopped this much in the space of 18 months is why I'm a failed Javascript programmer.
Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Endeavour, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.
the family computer running ubuntu from 2010 on. I used it mainly for Web browsing and creating presentations for School. I was able to run League of Legends (that was in 2014 i think) through wine but i think it crashed in about 50% of Games during the loading screen :D. Linux gaming has truly come far since then (and now LoL doesn't run on Linux at all because of Riots Rootkit)
My first Linux experience was trying to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Power Mac G4 in college
Fedora Core, I don't remember exactly which version it was.
Opensuse without knowing that it was Linux 20 years ago. Knowing was 3 years later with Mandrake.
Opensuse ca. 18 to 16 years ago
Suse linux. I didnt know what partitioning was, so I partitioned my hard drive 6 times and messed up my bootloader. I didn't know what that was too, so I had to figure out how to do all this....with a Suse linux disk from the library.
Later on, I discovered Wesnoth and that was an awesome game. I also played around with Ubuntu 6+, Slackware, DSL, and a host of others. Its been a fun ride. Nowdays, I like PopOS and Manjaro (steamdeck). Most anything debian.
Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.
Red Hat 5.1 CD from a magazine. Ended up at fedora and couldn't be happier.
Redhat 5.2 on cd. I learned a lot about compiling kernels as it didnβt support scsi emulation which was required for an ide cd burner. I think I ended up on Mandrake for a while before bouncing around including LFS. Then gentoo for many many years. And Iβve come full circle and been back on fedora for about 10 years now.
Some 10+ year old Ubuntu version probably. Before Unity so 10.04 maybe. Can't say
manjaro
Several floppies of Slackware.