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open suse (or was it mandrake? idk) around 2006. I remember trying it, and thinking "wow. This is trash" and then sticking with windows for 10 more years until giving ubuntu a try (and sticking to it). I tried other non-debian linuxes since then, but they all gave me that "wow, trash"-kind of feeling
I tried to have a go at ubuntu but my hardware was pretty crap and it didn't work, I can't remember my first one that worked but it was probably debian or alpine or something
Debian with kde, because it looked a bit like Windows.
Then slackware because it was supposedly a "simple" Linux distro. Apparently simple doesn't mean simple to use for a newbie...
Ubuntu Breezy (5.10)
Linux Mint 20 (MATE).
Almost Arch or Gentoo due to trolls.
I'd also like to mention that was when I got my first computer and I first had to figure out what's an OS.
I got it used, and it already had ~~Windows~~ free DVD burner pre-installed. I didn't have any flash drive, why would I anyway? I just managed to dig out one single DVD-RW.
Some old ass Fedora Core distro.
Ubuntu. Still going strong 5 years laterβ€οΈ.
The first computer I had personally ran ubuntu, but counting other computers before that it could have been either ubuntu or centos that was first, I don't remember which
Fedora Core 4...? I have yet to fully take the plunge but we'll get there.
Caldera Open Linux 2.(?) back around 98/99, for long enough to download Slackware and Win98SE.
Ubuntu back in 09 or so.
Mint was my first main. Before that there were some projects on raspbian.
Pardus in 2007
Open Suse in the mid 2000s.
Slackware 3.5 because my friend thought it'd be funny and didn't tell me fuck all about distros.
Helped me learn a lot though.
Ubuntu, it was an on-off-relationship until I finally made it
Suse
Linux Mint, until I made a mistake during a version upgrade and aptitude had a memory leak while trying to escape dependency hell and roll every package back. Then I replaced it with arch and am happy to be on a rolling release distro.
Ubuntu
Open suse and mandrake
Fedora from 2015, to circumvent my school laptop's OS with it installed on a USB stick.