Swapped to Linux 3 or so months ago, and have loved it. Doing Arch Linux, wanted to see every component go into the OS and just get a slightly better understanding of my computer - even though I think most educated people could use it with little complaint.

Games mostly just work, most software I use is there, I’ve found some fun new programs like an ASCII art and dithering image converter which has just been fun.

Last night I broke my system by trying to use my yubikey as the sudo requirement following some instructions that weren’t explicit about the caution I should have had. Loaded a backup via the Konsole and was back to before my fuck up in 5 minutes - mess up to fix (through freakout). That’s given me a lot of confidence in the stability of the system.

I also got to play the Arc Raiders Alpha test. I’ve written about this story before but it didn’t work the first day but it was clear to me it was a server issue or proton issue. Second day a patch came out and I was able to play it no problem. That gave me a lot of confidence that good games, even good online PVP games, will come to Linux without much issue.

Between those two events I’m pretty confident I’ll be on Linux for the rest of my life and if Arch continues to get support that’s where I’ll be for the foreseeable future (which it seems like it’s only speeding up and not at all in question of their funding).

Started testing Linux OS around 2003. Never really commited, until late 2020, where I removed Windows and switch to Arch Linux full-time.

Now, after 4 years of Arch, I switched to Fedora Workstation. I kinda miss the Arch repos and the AUR, but Fedora is doing a lot of work that I would have had to do myself on Arch.

Well, you gotta sacrifice something to gain something. Equivalent exchange and stuff.

I switched around 7-8 years ago and pledged to stick it out despite any annoyances.

About a year later I needed to use windows for a job and found it incredibly annoying to use. So much of it is just what you are used to.

These days I love gnome and tend to use OpenSUSE or Fedora

Switched 14 years ago and never looked back. When friends ask me for help with their windows machines I’m astounded how bad it’s gotten. Advertisements, forced tracking, forced account registration, dark patterns. Back in my day™️ people mostly switched for the performance and stability. Windows is no longer an operating system but an excuse to sell value-added services.

Well, i started around '98 or '99 with PTS Linux (this one: https://archive.org/details/pts-1.2), and - with some duel-boot interludes - i never did go back to the Redmond-Plague. Today i run a variety of OS, mostly Debian based but also FreeDOS and some other exotics on various systems.

At work i currently run a Windows 11 PC (you sometimes HAVE to use what your users are opressed with) and on another System Fedora Silverblue.

I’m on Linux Mint since a couple of years. It took me some time to set it up and I don’t understand how you guys distrohop so casually. I’m not a huge customizer, but it takes me days to install apps, connect network drives, change settings and synchronize accounts!?
But I love Linux and I will not go back. I make music with Bitwig, edit video with DaVinci Resolve, pictures in Gimp, LibreOffice, Evolution, Syncthing, it’s all great! I ran into some minor hickups and challenges but managed to fix them reading on the internet. Yet I still feel like there is so much I don’t understand. Managed to play some games, my Nvidia was never a problem. But I’m not a huge gamer so this wasn’t a stress test. Flatpak is cool but updates are huge, a couple of GB every couple of days. I’d like to try an unmutable distro but I’m too scared to set it up and learn about it, never change a running system. So I’ll stick with Mint for now. :)

It’s going. Currently, I’m on Bazzite and it’s doing well enough for my purposes, but Nvidia support on Linux is so shitty that I’m still not sure if it’s worth it. I still keep a dual-boot of Windows for gaming, since a lot of stuff just flat-out doesn’t work and the logs point me to unresolved issues with my drivers. A lot of simple games work out of the box, but it seems like anything online and anything requiring real horsepower requires me to be on Windows to work.

Aside from that, I do basically everything else in Linux, but I don’t really consider that to be high praise. It’d be almost impressive if it struggled with basic internet browsing and video-streaming, though even that hasn’t been perfect. I remember having some issues with certain webplayers trying to use Opera on Ubuntu, but I haven’t noticed any issue with Firefox on Bazzite.

I’m still not 100% on Atomic distros. It kinda feels like I have someone standing over my shoulder saying “No, don’t change that.” I think with how much of a novice I am, I actually need that. I’ve definitely bricked OS’ in the past by not fully understanding the commands I’m executing. However, it does feel limiting in a bad way.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.