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).

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

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.

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

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

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. :)

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

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.

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.

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

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… 😅

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.

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.