My first distro was OpenSUSE (or SuSE Linux back then) sometime around 2002. I picked it up out of curiosity in a book shop. They were selling the handbook, bundled with a DVD with the actual OS. It looked something like this. And thus started decades of distro hopping.
Note for the folks using Wayland, there’s also ydotool that doesn’t require X11: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool