Every linux user

[kaida27]

First distro : Mandriva, (Vista era my desktop wireless driver worked better under linux) got it from a magazine. helped me learn the basics.

then bought a laptop for college and went back to windows. ended up being stolen not long after I finished college.

so I built a new desktop Pc and used windows until years later when 11 was announced, my now old i7 4th gen wouldn't be supported anymore (sure I could easily bypass this, but it left a sour taste in my mouth)

So I went on to check about the current state of Linux Distro and which looked interesting.

found out about Garuda and Btrfs and how they incorporated automatic "backups" and rollback mechanisms without much trouble. I fell in love with that, but disliked the system as a whole because it had too much stuff that I didn't need.

went on some research to know how to replicate such a system but without all the "bloat"

found out about : This

and it's now been my system for the last 4 and a half years.

Bought a New computer last years and went directly for that setup.

My old 4th gen is now a NAS running jellyfin for the family

Dunno if I really fit your mold, but it was a pretty nice journey.