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Archlinux, probably 15 years ago already. Before it tried it all.
At beginning only my computers. After a few years when working still insisted on using ubuntu lts versions and others because "oh stable for sure", but they got very broken and software was not updated enough to use things I needed. It was mess of Frankenstein systems with ppa for hardware support and other random programs.
Started using arch on work computers too.
Never needed to change afterwards. All my computers both personal and work have it.