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Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 somewhere around 2000. Ran that for a year or two until the PC it was on died.
Next time I was able to run it was 2008ish on a pos dell laptop on which I installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). When that laptop died a year or so later I went macOS and was happy there until about 2022ish.
Now I'm running it across several machines for different purposes.
Arch dualbooting OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my tinkering laptop.
Ubuntu Server 22.04 on my server (started with 18.04)
Fedora 41 on family computers/laptops
Asahi on the last bit of Apple hardware left in the house
Raspberry Pi OS on a number of PiS serving different purposes.