[ASalazarMX]

Mine was SUSE Linux. It came in a magazine CD, and I installed on my clunker PC then. Had to ask a week off work because I couldn't stop playing with it.

It was an eye-opening experience compared to Windows because you weren't just allowed to tinker and even recompile the OS, you had to if you wanted to make things work like they effortlessly did in Windows, and then take it to some weird extreme. It was a lot of learning.

I'm just happy there are user-friendly distros now, because nowadays I can't devote hours just to setup my VGA card and a mouse with five buttons :)