Was using Windows and thought to myself, why not check what else is out there?
The junk-pile got me a barebones computer and off into Ubuntu I went. Never did more than the minimum “it is a thing” with it though.
Until Uni. At uni we had a class where we were going knee deep into FreeBSD, at he time I was suffering Win10 on a slow laptop with BSD in a VM. Some tinkering on a secondary machine at home later, I was back into Linux but this time in Manjaro because Ubuntu had some design choices I did not like.
6 years pass by with Linux being “just a tool” I kept on hand.
Win10 was decent (this is before the nagging being back-ported from Win11).
Win11 however, oh boy I did not like that! Tested it at work for work reason, and I hated it with a passion, and it hated me back.
Then the Steamdeck proved a point: Linux is gaming-ready! Right now!
So, when I decided I wanted a big-boy computer I wanted that machine to not annoy me.
Here I am!