My first linux distro was Ubuntu, if I remember correctly. Back in 2018 or something. Didn't stick for it long and moved to arch, as stupid a decision as that was.

Ubuntu 14.04
Everything was kinda good back then, even if early hints of the future were visible

my first distro was mint and i loved it lol

i first tried to install it on my laptop, but i had to turn off rst, which meant windows no longer booted, which scared me and made me give up on the idea until i got a pc

on my pc i daily drove it for a week until i (thought it) broke it 🥴

Ubuntu! I found the option in Virtualbox and wondered "Huh what is this other thing?" It was so intriguing to younger me cause it was not windows or Mac.

my first distro was fedora, and i have continued to use fedora since maybe november or december, i've had nothing but positive sentiment for linux, at least as compared to my lifetime of using mac and occasional usage of windows for school stuff.

The year was 1999, I was using Linux Mandrake 6.5, which I bought in a physical box containing CD-ROMs and a floppy disk and an actual printed user manual.

I remember being frustrated about getting the sound card working, but I had fun because I loved exploring new systems and figuring things out and I was just completely enamored with the idea of open source and free software at the time.

pretty sure it was ubuntu 10.04 in 2012, which i used in a vm a little bit. my computer was too slow to run unity in a vm smoothly, but then i later dualbooted 12.04 on bare metal with windows 7. my experience was a mix of "wow this is annoying" and "wow this is really cool". the customisation was super nice and the ui was slick and fresh to my 9 year old self. all of my problems with it were just normal linux issues at the time, or were typical ubuntuisms

I'm a normie, my first distro was ubuntu. 16.04 lts! I still miss unity DE. I use debian now, and have for 2 years. It's comfy. Anyway, my experience with ubuntu 16.04 was very brief because I borked it a couple days after installing it lol. But I /really/ enjoyed using it in the short time I did! It was snappy and responsive compared to windows 10 on my, at the time, very shitty hardware. I liked that unity could be themed way more than windows' dwm could be. It was way better on my battery too! Overall it ran very well in the maybe a week that I used it for.

My phone.

Mandriva, it was pleasant, if a little confusing. It's pretty intuitive though!

I don't use it as my main OS currently but I wanna remedy that, I just game too much and WINE is a pain in the ass. also I'm out of the loop on distros so idk which one I'd use...prolly arch or smth that I have friends who use so I can crowdsource help x3

It was Ubuntu. If I'm not mistaken, version 16.04. It was cool in that it could run Firefox out of the box and do web browsing. But I didn't know how to download software properly, and ended up thinking like it was some sort of unfinished/experimental stuff that was being taken too seriously.

Fast forward to today and my esteemed KDE Ubuntu handles everything I throw at it (except sustained workloads like gaming but that's a firmware support issue)

Ubuntu. it was... annoying. My teachers did not appreciate it :3

Mobile and laptop. But my phone more.

My first Linux was Linux Mint. I do work with a couple of Debian boxes and as my desktop OS I do use Ubuntu alongside MacOS.