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Ubuntu 4.10. I remember it vividly because my father was near death from cancer (treatment) at the time and I had moved my computer upstairs so I could sit with him. I was using a nice big black IBM-branded Trinitron and a Pentium 4 that was hotter than the sun. About 20 years ago, before Walmart sold groceries, I worked in the electronics department. We had Red Hat in stock, but I never bought it. One of my co-workers there got me in to Palm Pilots for a bit and he used to brag to me about his Gentoo setup. I was intrigued and checked it out but it was over my head at the time (maybe still is lol) I never owned a legit copy of XP but I used it til Vista came out. At that time I bid farewell to Photoshop, embraced the Gimp and began fulltime drinking Linux koolaid. Never went back.
My main OS history pretty much goes like this:
MSDOS/Win3.11/95/98/2k/XP → Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Debian/Devuan/antiX