You’ve got me by half a decade. I managed to install Debian off CDs on a Macintosh in 1998 or so, but couldn’t make it useful. (I think it was a Performa, but don’t quote me. Could have been a Quadra. It was whatever I had laying around.) I made X Windows work and had Blackbox running, but no software of any use. A couple years later I did the same with an Indigo iMac and got both Gnome and KDE running on it, of which I liked Gnome better.

However that didn’t last long because that’s about when Mac OSX was released and I switched. Then in 2009 or so I had a friend who worked for Novell who talked me into trying OpenSUSE. I tried to like it, i really did. It lasted about three months before I went back to OSX. Then around 2012 I moved in with another friend and we both started using Ubuntu. It was fine back then, but when they switched to Gnome 3 I bailed. Went back to OSX until Apple finally made me so mad in 2019 that I started distro hopping until I settled on MX LInux, which I still (mostly) use. Except on my Raspberry Pi which runs Raspian with Xfce. I despise Gnome these days, and I tried KDE Plasma but didn’t like it. I know Xfce inside and out so I just feel more comfortable in it. I think KDE tries too hard to be pretty and sacrifices usability for that.

Been meaning to try Fedora for a few years, but can’t seem to work up the energy to try something new. I never felt the desire to try Slackware. I’m too used to Debian distributions. Arch Linux? For the love of Buddha why?