Ubuntu, maybe around 2007-2008.

I was starting college and got my first notebook. Up to that point we had only a desktop PC for all the family and this was the first time I could actually try things out without messing with my brothers’ stuff, so I eagerly jumped to try new things and format my notebook every 2 months after completely screwing something up.

The thing that hooked me up was the breath of fresh air in terms of customisation that a Linux distro offered compared to Windows. Funnily enough the mac OS style was my favourite so I eventually ended up buying a mac, but I always maintained a distro on bootcamp.

Not sure OP is the same person from the mastodon post?

This is just a link to the post on Mastodon.social, to appear here, OP would’ve had to tag the community on the same mastodon post.

I kinda do this, but only thanks to Beeper. Not sure I would be able to do it by myself lol.