Normal Use Distros
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was my first distro. Installed in May 2007.
Then upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS in April 2008.
By then, ubuntu started sucking. Gnome became a lot slower while I was used to 7.04's blazing speed.
Switched to Kubuntu 8.04 LTS (by installing kubuntu-desktop package) for some time. Performance still bad, since I had 256MB RAM.
From now on, I started making documentations of the distros I use in my Blog.
Then I decided to ditch ubuntu. *thesmallerbang.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/bye-bye-ubuntu-the-opening-of-a-void/
Installed Debian Lenny after using ubuntu for less than a month. But I ditched Lenny in just 2 days. *thesmallerbang.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/debian-the-lenny-diary/
Next came Sidux. *thesmallerbang.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/debian-the-sidux-install/ But did have my share of amusing events. *thesmallerbang.wordpress.com/2008/...ck-my-ass-if-i-ever-choose-twdebianorg-again/ I Was loving it and used it for a few months. *thesmallerbang.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/debian-sidux-forever/
Then decided to move on after sidux just had TOO many updates. I knew that Debian sid has loads of updates, but could manage easily in BSNL happy hours. But one week without updating and I used to get 700MB of updates. Also, the fact that sidux by nature is slightly unstable and source based support is less in Debian made me switch from it. Definitely a great distro though.
I am currently with ArchLinux and I am loving it. *thesmallerbang.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/life-on-the-cutting-edge-archlinux/ And life just got a zillion times better after replacing my 256MB RAM with a 1GB stick. This extended the life of the system by a few years.
I don't think I will upgrade this distro till I get new hardware. Even then, the only distro which I could possibly replace arch with is Gentoo. Which due to lots of compiling work needs me to have a decent rig which I lack.
Temporary Distros
Other than above, I did try Knoppix CD quite a few times for long sessions. Awesome distro that.
And I installed DreamLinux in my school comp for a project which had to be halted due to unexpected circumstances and which will take quite some time to get revived again.
Then I have installed and quickly uninstalled OpenSuSE 11 and CentOS 5.2