The reason for me was Slackware back in the 90s had a run Linux on a DOS partition version. I believe this was Slackware 7.0. It was easier to install for a 12-

The reason for me was Slackware back in the 90s had a run Linux on a DOS partition version. I believe this was Slackware 7.0. It was easier to install for a 12-year-old me than to figure out what fdisk outputs meant. Slackware made it super easy in that it just installed within the FAT32 partition. I learned a lot, I was on AOL at the time so I couldn't figure out certain things like XFree86 or vim since AOL didn't work on Linux. So whenever I was stuck I would literally restart the machine to Windows, go online, look up how to do something, take notes, and restart back to Linux to try what I was doing. It took a long time... But it made me extremely comfortable with the command line, and figure out where Linux breaks since Slackware was such a simple system. Though I moved on to FreeBSD, then Gentoo, then Debian, and Ubuntu. I still think Slackware was a solid place to start. I guess it has led me to my current path of running a DevOps consulting company...