I started working at Telenokia (later Nokia) as a test engineer in 1983. Of course, the telephone network had to use a real-time operating system, which was Nokia’s own product. I thought it made sense and I also liked the VAX/VMS that the software was coded on.
Then disaster struck, Nokia introduced Windows for Workgroups. It was so slow and full of bugs that I hated it from the start.
I had to find something better than Windows at home, and I installed the desktop from the components. I installed SOT Best Linux (1998?) on it. After that I tried different linux distros and finally found the one I wanted.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember the first Suse distro, but I remember it being SuSE Linux 7 or 8.