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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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... 😅