I asked the same question a while ago and decided to settle on Arch as container.
Why?
Pacman is extremely fast. I used a Fedora-container a while too and it was extremely slow compared to Arch
Simple syntax, especially with the Arch plugin for zsh.
Minimalist
Official packages are (almost) just as secure as from other distros
I get the newest stuff
Good documentation
The AUR. I rarely need to use it (pretty much never), but if I would need to, it’s great I can.
I still rarely use it. I’m leaning more to the casual user side and use Flatpak 99% of the time. But for terminal use, I find the said container, with zsh + plugins great. There are some programs (Nextcloud client for example) that don’t work 100% with Flatpaks, and for that, the Arch packages are actually pretty reliable and work almost every time (via distrobox-export).
I had a few doubts about Arch, and I personally still wouldn’t use it as distro for everyday use, but at least as container, it’s elegant and lovely. I could use Silverblue as unbreakable base and install everything with Arch, and nothing breaks.
2009 i started studying computer science. Having windows on my Laptop wasnt helpful when compiling c, that was my first encounter with Linux (especially Ubuntu). Was running Xubuntu most of the time because i didnt like Unity.
Stopped using Linux after finishing my degree, since Linux wasnt useful for gaming or my work.
Skip forward to 2020. Hadnt really used Linux for anything for years, then windows 11 was announced. Didnt like where this was going and tested out Manjaro, since gaming on linux was supposed to be “okay”.
Didnt like Manjaro and tried out EndeavourOS. All games that mattered at the time ran good. Switched to AMD graphics, deleted windows completly from my drive and use Linux exclusivly for private usage.
Also installed EndeavourOS on my work laptop and use a Windows VM if needed.
I dont want to go back to using windows for daily stuff ever
Almost two decades ago, as a teenager, I decided to give Linux a try as a bit of fun and as a learning activity. I put Ubuntu 6.06 on an old Windows 95 desktop which was languishing in a cupboard having been long replaced. The install disc was, I’m fairly sure, a freebie that came with a magazine. I was amazed at how easy it was to install and how smoothly it ran, and had lots of fun playing around with it and learning the ropes.
Have had a Linux machine or two on the go ever since. At some point in the last decade I made the switch from using Windows as my main OS to using Linux as my main, and these days I only use Windows on my corporate-provisioned work laptops.
I’m still an Ubuntu user. I’ve distro hopped occasionally, and Debian has a place in my heart, but I always came back to Ubuntu. There’s a lot of meming about Ubuntu being terrible, but the reality is that it remains an incredibly polished, high-quality, “just works” OS which largely keeps out of my way.
Over the last two decades I moved into software engineering as a career, although I’ve since moved out of the industry onto non-techy things. Linux continues to scratch my techy itch in my spare time.
Around 1998 I’d guess. Some loadlin based setup on my friends Windows machine. Don’t recall the name. I remember running Mandrake shortly after that.
I’ve hopped back and fourth between many distros, and gone back to Windows a few times over those years. But I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver for about a decade now. Currently using and enjoying NixOS.
Just started getting into it with the Win11 bullshit. I come to find that I can customize KDE to pretty much replicate every single thing I like (or just used to) about the Windows experience and toss everything else out. Fedora KDE has me hooked. No plans on going back.
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