Adventure ended a while back. Been on bazzite (Fedora atomic spin) for a few years and can’t see myself moving far from it.

Been dual booting Linux for a long time (was cutting my teeth in the 2010’s on Gentoo) and only kept windoze for games, which ive thankfully just totally ditched.

I first used Linux something like 15 years ago. Back then, it was quite the hassle, especially getting games to work. With Windows 11 (even the Pro version) being the shitshow that it is, and with the steam deck showing me gaming on linux has become mostly easy and viable, I have been using linux exclusively for 9 months now.

I very rarely boot up windows to play VR games wirelessly on my quest 2.

Not much adventure anymore. Debian testing with Gnome for 10 years. Some minor issues over the years but overall stable, reliable and can recommend it over debian stable.

Never got the hype around arch, clearly Ubuntu is the most popular und its build on top of Debian. Hence, debian must be the best distro ;)

Had i3 and then sway for a while but now Gnome has been going strong for 5 years or so for me. It works.

I tried Kubuntu once. It was so much less annoying than Windows, that I basically forgot to go back to Windows and used it as my main OS ever since.

I started using Linux on and off a little before starting college, almost 20 years ago. For studying and working (I’m an IT engineer) was a very robust solution and I saw things getting better within time for the non initiated.

On a personal level, however, I was still on the Windows side mostly for gaming. Luckily enough, when my gaming laptop was forced to update to Windows 11 and problems started, I knew a distro hopping journey was about to begin.

I tried focusing mostly on gaming, but I also needed some general purpose tools. I started with Mint but oddly enough, it didn’t suit me well. I was thinking about Kubuntu, but before that, I tried Nobara and, out of nostalgia, openSuse Tumbleweed (openSuse was my first distro ever)

Thing is that I haven’t had a reason yet to switch again. All my games from Steam run like a breeze, so for now I just focus on enjoying and evangelizing people to make the switch.

I just love mint. Had win10 before but couldn’t be bothered to upgrade to 11, which I have to use at my job.

I had first attempts with openSuse about a decade ago on my laptop. I didnt use it regluarly though so often when booting up i had to reinstall the latest version as my current one wasnt supported anymore.

Fast forward to my new PC as my old ones GPU failed after 12 years and MS already thought under Windows 10 that RAM should only be gobbled up by windows.

I bought a new laptop to replace the PC and bought it w.o. a Windows licencse. I installed an Arch based Distro and well it works. Took some tinkering to get the GPU running well, but nothing in comparision to what i did on Windows to get keep my old GPU alive for a few more weeks.

On my 26th year of using it, and I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it

My journey starts in the early 2000s with Mepis to Ubuntu to Linux Mint to CachyOS now. Allways with dual boat. The release of Windows 11 was the reason to go full Linux for a year now. And thx to Valve for their work on Proton.

I started in the previous millennium. My longest running distro was Ubuntu. Now I switched to Mint Debian Edition.

Honestly, I have only ever used Ubuntu and that’s it. I am seriously baffled by people that keep distro hopping because of non critical reasons. I mean that is quite the hassle, isn’t it?

Ubuntu is decent, looks decent, gives me what I expected.

I only ever would switch to arch, just to annoy people that I meet by telling them that I use arch btw.

Broke my teeth with endeavour because of the bluetooth. Using bazzite for the moment and it’s fine since.

I think I’ve been using Linux for something like 20 years now. And Free Software (in general) has given me a lot of useful tools and nice things. Though it felt a lot more like an adventure to me when I was young. It still sometimes does, but I don’t think I spend that much time distro hopping and messing with application software and games these days. And a lot of things got easier. I feel it has always been the best option for me. I know my way around, my computer works most of the times and I’m able to do stuff with it. Occasionally I’ll have a look at other people’s computers and fix their printers or little woes and I’m always glad I don’t use those kinds of operating systems on my machines… 😅

Started with slack, hopped around for a few years as new distros began to pop up. Stopped using Gnome after… We’ll call it a philosophical disagreement with a Gnome developer. The main issue persists, so I still won’t use it.

Eventually landed back on Debian, and I stay there with a mix of Debian based (proxmox), Debian stable, and one box running Sid for testing/reporting issues. I have two “main” desktops, deb stable and arch.

Most have no GUI, except for my main desktopss, a laptop, and the one running Sid, all are KDE.

I’m pretty well settled on the Debian side, arch is a more recent bit of fun. I may move the arch box to something else at some point, but the Debian boxes are basically here to stay.