According to Wikipedia [1], Debian Woody came out in 2002, Sarge in 2005 and Etch in 2007. The first Ubuntu lts was 2006. This timeframe sounds about right to

According to Wikipedia [1], Debian Woody came out in 2002, Sarge in 2005 and Etch in 2007. The first Ubuntu lts was 2006. This timeframe sounds about right to me - that's when things started to get better than windows hw support in some sense. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history