Debian for me and Linux Mint Debian Edition for anyone I help with computers, because I don’t want to configure a system more than once and to investigate why some stuff doesn’t work.

What ads? I use Firefox and its forks and I haven’t seen an ad.

It was 2009 and I was 14. I had been using Ubuntu on my father’s PC for a year and I installed Andromeda Linux (an Ubuntu fork with a stunning theme), completely wiping my HDD. The next day I installed Windows and attempted my second Linux install, I was more careful and got a doual boot working.