I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to run my games on it, and man wine was not nearly as easy to use (or as good) as it is nowadays. So I switched back to windows until around 2015 or so when I spent the next few years trying to replace windows as much as I could. Once valve released proton, I switched fully and have t looked back, unless my still there windows partition tries to take over my computer when I restart it at least.
i probably first got started with linux back when i was around 12 or 13. would make a bunch of usb flash drives and install a new distro every week or two
longest i’d go with one distro was like a month and then i’d make some stupid move and break my system and re-install again.
after a while i went back to windows and then in my early 20s i went back to linux. used arch linux for a bit but then tried fedora and have been using fedora for years
right now my main OS is macos because I have apple silicon but as soon as asahi is more mature i’m gonna switch over back to linux. i do have windows & fedora installation through parallels