Fedora 6 back in 2007-8 as a part of my CompTIA A+ training. It wasn't required but my instructor wanted some of us more advanced students to experience a life outside of Windows.
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My first was Linux Mint as well because it was more simplistic and cinnamon is really simple to use, good extensions available and stable for the most part, sometimes happened memory leaks but fixed on version 5.8; currently using Debian RC
First full time distro was Manjaro. First exposure to desktop Linux was Ubuntu on a crappy school netbook. Now I use Arch (btw)
Mandrake.
And then to Debian and to Ubuntu for a good time. Now using Arch mainly to avoid Snap & Flatpak.
I had messed around with various distros in the mid 2000's but never more than a day. Just as a "this seems neat" kinda thing. Recently I wised up, tried Zorin OS was on that for a year, then went back to windows for a while. now I'm running EndeavorOS and there isn't even a windows partition on this machine, I will not be going back. Still debating setting up QEMU for the only windows only program I miss though.
My first distro was Ubuntu because it is a beginner distro and it looked interesting.
fedora 38 KDE Plasma. still using it today
Ubuntu, and I've been using it for 10 years without trying anything else until this week, I use arch now.
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