I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to run my games on it, and man wine was not nearly as easy to use (or as good) as it is nowadays. So I switched back to windows until around 2015 or so when I spent the next few years trying to replace windows as much as I could. Once valve released proton, I switched fully and have t looked back, unless my still there windows partition tries to take over my computer when I restart it at least.

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    Caldera OpenLinux[1], in 1999. It didn’t really impress me, and I went back to Windows 98SE (then 2K Pro) until 2005 . . . at which point I found Gentoo, and it was love at first compile. 😅


    1. a chorus of “ding dong, the witch is dead” may be appropriate here ↩︎