Yesterday I came across my (most likely, as far as I can remember) very first bug report ever, here, filed on the 16th of november 2002. A bug in Mandrake 8.2 (kernel 2.4.18, XFree86 4.2.0, KDE 3.0RC2) because of which I was unable to use my mouse in X. The machine was an Acer Pentium1 166MHz with 40MB of RAM inside and an S3Virge video adapter.
This was not my first Linux experience: my first installation ever, on the same machine, was using a SuSe sample CD my dad got at Cebit2000. This was an evaluation copy of SuSe 6.4, providing kernel 2.2.14, XFree86 3.3.6 and KDE 1.1.2 (well, I can’t remember, that’s what the web tells me now).
Compared to those days (although not that long ago) installing and (especially) using a Linux desktop nowadays could be called somewhat easier 
So, have you got any memories of your very first Linux install or a reference to your earliest bug report?
Yes, I remember mine. I was upset that Evolution didn’t have a sensible shortcut for spell-check, so I said “hey, why can’t it be F7 like everything else?”
It’s F7 now after a bit of discussion about carat mode and such.
That’s one of the reasons why I still use Evolution.