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I wandered through many distros and now, after asking many "linuxed" friends choosed "MEPIS"- it conquered very quickly high position(4th) at for ex. distrowatch.com. It's 100% backwardly compatible with Ubuntu, but not so strict about licenses, so it has working mp3-codecs, nvidia/ati closed-source drivers and stuff like this to be more user(than ideologists) friendly

Well, i can't say i am a Linux pro, since i just know few commands, and used it not so often.. i've been using Mandriva 2005 for some time, in double-boot with Xp.

Nowadays, i installed ubuntu, and i'm happy
I use it more often than other distro, even if am yet a Windowszz user..

The first install I tried was Redhat but I had problems getting it working on the hardware I had.

The first succesfull install of linux was.....dont laugh.....corel linux

i ve tried vs-live a bulgarian distribution based on slackware..i was very well developed but now i`m using xubuntu

i've tried suse 10.2 on a virtual machine and now i'm using ubuntu that it's very very easy

my first linux test run was on red hat fedora core 4, i currently run ubuntu on my laptop and freebsd on my server computer. my PC has windoze just cuz i need photoshop and dreamweaver for webdesign :/

The first distribution I ever tried was knopix 3.05.

Mandrake cause it was easy to install.

my first distro was Ubuntu 5.10, now i m training with some Slackware but after some years i m still a noob

my first one has been suse, it was pain in the ass to be honest.
additionally i just had a 56k connection and the modem wouldnt run on linux.
now im using ubuntu 7.04 and im happy with it, my old laptop runs xubuntu, my "mess around server" with ubuntu as well. even my mums pc is running ubuntu :p
in the meantime i tried mandrake, knoppix one time.....got damn small linux running on a 40 mhz pc with 16 mb ram or sumthing, it was very very slow but i got internet running
tested the latest fedora one 2 days after it was released, but it was really buggy.

I started out with with slackware, and didn't know there was a package manager

after many distros and back and forth (with winxp as well), I'm using Sabayon for desktop, and would highly recommend it, and ubuntu for server - highly recommend as well.

I tried Mandrake, but I think it is mandriva or something now ^^

I'm currently using Ubuntu, very easy to use and to manage, with a real efficient support and ok! A real powerful community and a very easy-to-understand Wiki! Continuous updates and the repositories are really full of a lot of software. For me #1!

Knoppix, needed a purely work based OS.

Way back when, I came into a computer with redhat installed. I'm now running ubuntu