My first “Linux” was Xenix, which a technician friend of mine and I installed on a Perkin Elmer computer in 1986 (ish). Xenix, BTW, was a Microsoft project. More fool them – they had the answer but threw it away. Before that was mainly mainframe OS’s (George IV, OS32, MTM, VMS, the rest I have forgotten). In our research lab, we also had a CPM machine (Gates copied CPM to construct DOS).
Modern Linux OSs started with Mandrake, and then the same route most of you have taken (SUSE, Ubuntu 4.0, then I went mad trying just about everything, including Manjaro and Mageia and over the years ended up loving Antergos, being gutted when they pulled the plug but switched to Endeavouros and I don’t feel the need to try another. It’s perfect.
Thanks! The articles, forum posts, and the people who wrote them are key to the positive experience I’ve had thus far, and I hope to give others that impression as well at some point
My first computer was a Commodore Amiga 2000, 1MB RAM, no HDD, used mostly for games
In middle school I learned programming in BASIC and TurboPascal on a bunch of Siemens-Nixdorf XT computers with amber monitors and dual floppy drives
Most of my peers back then had C64s, some had PCs, and one guy had an Atari ST
As far as Linux is concerned:
My first forays into Linux when I finally bought a PC were done with SuSE
Later I dual-booted Windows 98 and a changing variety of Linux distros; I remember playing around with CRUX and Vector Linux as well as Slackware
After a period of sharing a Windows PC with my wife, I got my own laptop around 2010, and put Crunchbang on it, which I enjoyed for many years
After Crunchbang died, I used Mint for a while, then Solus Budgie, then KDE Neon, which I continue to use on my current Dell laptop
I am now testing EndeavourOS on my Pinebook Pro. Not convinced regarding the KDE edition, it is quite laggy compared to KDE Neon on the Dell. I might switch to i3 or sway, though.
I started with Windows 3.1 and ended with Windows Me. Then I started with Suse 6.2 and ended here after trying about 30-Plus different distro’s over the years. Back and forth. . . Back and forth. . . It’s been a long journey to say the least. It’s good to see Linux maturing into an excellent alternative to Windows garbage.
I had a rock-bottom laptop back then that ran horribly with Windows on it.
I never had heard of Linux before that. So, by accident or chance, I came across Lubuntu
It worked really well on that machine.
I got so hooked up on Linux that I tried several others on that hardware. The pressure was too high and the motherboard or something got fried.
It was a good laboratory machine. Eventually, I got a better laptop and the rest is the so called history
Dell Latitude 7490 with i7 and 16GB RAM. Of course it’s much beefier than the Pinebook Pro with its RK3399 and 4GB RAM. But it doesn’t hold a charge for 10+ hours.
what dell laptop you compare PBP with ? I real interested 
No even close fair compare.