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I started fairly recently (probably somewhere between nine and seven years ago; time isn’t my strong suit, cut me some slack) on Debian. Now I’m on Arch Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Half a year ago I tried it but I have destroyed the system so bad, that even live usb wouldn't boot. Few months ago I have tried again, seems in time what was broken before got fixed by itself also I stuck with it this time and love using it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

live usb not booting is a seperate problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Most likely... Unless the "destruction" was switching your MOBO between Legacy BIOS and UEFI, in which case you could break booting into both in one swoop ;D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I started around 2018, using crouton to run Ubuntu on a Chromebook so I could have better functionality. I went back to Windows for a while, then I started using Pop!OS as my daily driver last year. I still don’t know if I love it, but I’m sticking with Linux of some flavor going forward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I started working for a video game company in 2000. It was dominated by Linux nerds (including the CEO) and they indoctrinated me into their cult. My first distro was SuSe, then Redhat for a while, then Gentoo for about a decade, then Arch, which is where I am now.

My last Windows "daily driver" was Windows 98se.