1994? You are a fossil. :) I started on Slackware before Patrick made the great leap forward during the dialup days and that was around 2000.
First install with Graphic user inter-phase was Redhat 5.0. It was a slow dog until I installed XFCE Graphic user inter-phase. Also ran several versions of Mandrake and several other distributions.
Later Xubuntu, and Debian XFCE.