The first Linux distro I ever tried was a copy of Turbolinux 6 I got from a Hamfest (I wasn’t successful in installing it), I used Gentoo in college [embarrassingly large number redacted] years ago (along with Debian and OS X on other computers), and I tend to prefer Debian most of the time.
I didn’t try Ubuntu until I’d already been using Linux for more than a decade, and the only reason it ended up on my main machine is simply that Debian didn’t 100% “just work” on my hardware and I couldn’t be bothered even trying to troubleshoot it, so I picked the next closest thing.
The first Linux distro I ever tried was a copy of Turbolinux 6 I got from a Hamfest (I wasn’t successful in installing it), I used Gentoo in college [embarrassingly large number redacted] years ago (along with Debian and OS X on other computers), and I tend to prefer Debian most of the time.
I didn’t try Ubuntu until I’d already been using Linux for more than a decade, and the only reason it ended up on my main machine is simply that Debian didn’t 100% “just work” on my hardware and I couldn’t be bothered even trying to troubleshoot it, so I picked the next closest thing.