I had a live linux USB with Zorin, all set up with funky compiz cube animations and stuff. The casper-rw file always kept getting corrupted though and repairing it was a pain for me back then. That thing was what got me interested in Linux over a decade ago, I think I still have an image of it somewhere…
Then the RPi came along and sealed the deal. From that point on, I’ve always had a linux machine, up to now where my daily driver laptop runs Linux