Debian gang! I almost exclusively use Debian distros on any of my PCs/VMs/LXCs.

I’ve been a proud Debian stan since my dad introduced it to me back in the early 2000s. He used to be a QA engineer at Novell, so we had various OSes on the home computer, including Windows and multiple Linux distros (not at the same time - old Compaq Deskpro 2000). He brought home a Dell Latitude once, loaded with a basic Debian install and no GUI. Since I had a little experience with Linux already (some command line from watching my dad install OSes), he just showed me certain important commands (including rm -rf / - intentionally causing a computer to melt down the first time was pretty entertaining) and how to switch between virtual consoles. I just kinda figured it out on my own from there.

Debian just appealed to me over all the other distros I had used up to that point. I’m guessing because it was easy to work with (still is), and so highly-documented (it was always one of the first results on Google).

Not sure what for me in that tangent… Thank you coming to my TED talk.