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Mine was/is/will be:
Windows
Some ancient version of Corel Linux that came on a CD that was free with a magazine that I could never get to work properly
Some version of SUSE that I bought from a computer store impulsively, that also never worked properly
Ubuntu 6.something that finally worked!
Several more years of Ubuntu, gradually drifting over to Kubuntu/KDE Neon as I realised I liked KDE more than GNOME/Unity
Manjaro as an awkward transitional phase to becoming an Arch person
A split between full Arch (btw) for my laptop which is the tinkering machine that I'm allowed to break, and Pop!OS on the desktop, which is the one other people use that has to actually work all the time
The distant call of NixOS, which I'm currently fiddling with in a VM and is trying to tempt me into nuking my laptop once again.