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The main reason I left was because I wanted to switch to btrfs (for snapshot rollbacks), and Tumbleweed had that OOTB so I gave it a shot.

This is precisely why I went with Tumbleweed as well. I wanted a rolling release distro because having initially gotten into Linux via Ubuntu back in 2007, I didn’t really like the “upgrade twice a year to keep up to date with new features” method. It felt really cumbersome back then, as a regular distro upgrade often brought problems with it.

When I looked into other features I wanted, I discovered Snapper and I was all “that’s the one for me!”

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yup!

Here’s my progression:

Ubuntu because I was a noob; got pissed at breakage at the release upgrade

Fedora, because that’s what my university used; got pissed that release upgrades took an hour (since fixed I think?)

Arch, because my coworker recommended it

openSUSE Tumbleweed because of snapper and they had a server distro (had recently set up a NAS and tried Leap before switching desktop to TW)

Aeon on laptop because I wanted to try an immutable distro and it was in the family

I’ll probably switch my laptop back to Tumbleweed at some point and my NAS to MicroOS, but for nos things work fine so I’m not motivated.
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- Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t even remember my progression. I do remember what first piqued my interest though. A guy came from BUIT (Barn-och-ungdoms IT enhet), which no longer exists, and he was troubleshooting some IT stuff at my school back in 2003. Being the nosy and tech-interested bratty nerd that I was, I hovered around the guy. He was super nice, and had no problem with my prodding questions about his laptop, which was running Red Hat Linux. He explained in simple terms what exactly that meant, and it stuck with me.
  
  Then, years later when I found out about Ubuntu (at the library I think) and the fact that they sent out LiveCDs I was like “Yes please!” and the rest is history. I didn’t use Linux for many years, between having hardware that didn’t play nice with it, and just not feeling like it. Then the other year I went back to Linux and been using it since.
  
  Every so often I boot into Windows to do some texture work in Substance Painter, but I don’t think that’s going to last. I’m very keen on trying Armor Paint, and if I like the workflow there I might as well wipe Windows entirely.
  
  Now, if only I could run Linux on my work PC.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nice!
    
    For me, I went to the local community college in high school, and an old guy was in my Java class and gave me a FreeBSD CD. I installed it and played around with it for a year or two, but still used Windows. When I went to uni, I got an Ubuntu CD on campus and installed it on my rental, and later that year the Windows XP install had issues but Ubuntu was fine, so I switched.
    
    Now, if only I could run Linux on my work PC.
    
    I had that at my last job, but my current one uses macOS. At least it’s close enough to Linux on the CLI…
    
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    Dojan@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m stuck on Windows 11 at work. It’s not a bad laptop, but Windows is insanely slow. Opening the commandline isn’t instant. Explorer takes well over a second to open. It’s like treacle.
    
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