Probably like many of you i switched to Linux. I first used it in 2012 when i heard about it in School. Back then i used Ubuntu, but could not figure it out how to play my Games on CD, DVDs and Steam so i switched back to Windows.
Over the Years i often tried it out again but had various problems with it.
Now, thanks to the Trump Donald, i have a real reason to no longer use Microshaft Proudcts. Our Boycott!
So far i tried Linux Mint, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, ZorinOS, PopOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Gnu Guix, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, Antergos. That is over 10 years.
What i found out:
- i dont like gnome, i find the ui weird. xfce is too cobbled together imo and ugly, lxqt too.
- i like kde and budgie
- im currently on kubuntu and gnu guix :)
Im too much distrohopping bevause of small annoyances. its not a good time spent! lol
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The adventure has been going on for quite a while: I started with a cheap thinclient and Proxmox in order to replace the underpowered Raspi4. Then bought a new, cheap thinclient to replace the thinclient I was running windows on. The idea was to kill the windows PC, get a more powerful main desktop with Linux and use the old windows one as another Proxmox client. I haven’t had the time to do that, but I now have a Windows machine with Office, cracked Photoshop, Fusion360 etc. installed and a main linux device. Haven’t booted up the windows computer in 3 months.
And gaming works totally great on the SteamDeck. Recently installed the Wii/WiiU/Switch emulators, which is really awesome
I played with Ubuntu before it hit version 10, but recently since gaming has gotten so good lately I’ve switched to Bazzite and had a fantastic experience. Better than Windows in some cases.
The only problem is that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous crashes a bit too much for me right now. But other than that, great stuff.
All good, I just expanded the Linux partition that I set up a couple of years ago as a “test”. It’s sadly been a couple of months now that my GPU just dies randomly on some fullscreen games, an instability that I can’t replicate on the windows side of hell…
Edit: Pop_OS
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.
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 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.
I just love mint. Had win10 before but couldn’t be bothered to upgrade to 11, which I have to use at my job.
On my 26th year of using it, and I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it
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.
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.
i got annoyed by snaps
I started in the previous millennium. My longest running distro was Ubuntu. Now I switched to Mint Debian Edition.
why did you switch?
Snap was an issue, but mostly I like being closer to the really free and stable OS Debian.
Broke my teeth with endeavour because of the bluetooth. Using bazzite for the moment and it’s fine since.
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.
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.
