Ok, here is my life long OS story, it's a little short though, I'm only 15 :P
Here is my order that I've used:
Windows 3.11 (umm.. sure... ok)
Windows 95 (big improvment, but God it still sucks!)
Windows 98 (nice, I get tons of new themes, in exchange it only crashes twice as often!)
Windows XP (fisher price come to mind? I mean come on, this thing sucks, what's up with contstant crashing?)
Now the fun, Linux experimentation
Mandrake 8.1 (I'm still depending on Windows, and it messed with it, so I had to say bye)
Mandrake 8.2 (ok, still not ready for me I suppose)
Mandrake 9.1 (alright, we're getting there!)
Mandrake 9.2 (come on, just one more release and I think they'll have it!)
A few months later...
Red Hat 9 (alright, nice, stable, but no media support? I'll pass, but I'll keep it in my collection)
SuSE 9.1 Personal (hey, pro might just be worth trying)
SuSE 9.1 Pro (she's a keeper, let's ditch that Windows harddrive!)
Ok, so I'm still experimenting, give me my time
:P
Xandros (you've GOT to be kidding, right?)
Mandrake 10 (they got it right! I said goodbye to my few weeks of SuSE, and put this on my computer)
Fedora Core 2 (it's very nice, but mandrake is working, so ill just keep this in my collection)
Linspire 4.5 (this IS a joke, right? *cd hits trash can*)
Lycoris DesktopLX (i tried this one today, its still on my spare hdd, but itll get formatted soon, i cant stand this one)
Never realized I tried all those out XD I'm staying with Mandrake now, I'm finally 100% Microsoft and Windoze free, and I couldn't be happier! I'm runnign a powerful OS, powerful programs, and it's all FREE! Even though I liek the idea of it being free, once I'm old enough you can bet I'll be in the Mandrake Club
Mandrake 10 did just about everything on it's own, with me guiding it some of the way. DVD support, support for my music collection, the best HTML editor, and god Kopete kicks a**! Even though the apps are on all linux systems (well, some), the point is Mandrake was so easy to setup. My SBLive 5.1 was a b*** to setup, and still isn't '5.1', but it sounds better than it did in Windows, and I'm perfectly fine with it how it is now XD It's easy to customize my system now. All the apps I could possibly want are freely at my disposal.
My dad is 100% anti-everythingbutMS, and 100% pro-everythingMS, so when our router needs to be reset (our router isn't exactly new), my linux system takes the blame (how iggnorant is that?). Oh well, he'll get over it
I now have no visruses, no spyware, adware, no this, no that, only what I WANT.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to Mandrake, couldn't be happier *thumbs up*