I started with Slackware in 96 then was on a friend’s Debian server in like 98. I lost the friend account so I switched to Ubuntu in like… 08 mainly because that’s what Digital Ocean offered in its prebuilt stacks, I didn’t really have an opinion. Switched to Linux on the desktop only last year, went with Mint since I’d gotten used to Ubuntu. I’m happy, don’t feel the need to do anything else really. I have a Steam Deck so obviously I’ve used SteamOS, not really a fan of the immutable thing.
Tbf, I believe CachyOS has taken the reigns of “Arch based gaming distro that doesn’t have immutable OS restrictions”, so that’d probably the easiest solution for that.
On the slackware note though, my uncle still uses it (I think it was Puppy last I checked). He was a former chip designer at IBM and Intel, and got on the linux for privacy bandwagon long enough ago to show me the ropes of linux as I was growing up.
I started with Slackware in 96 then was on a friend’s Debian server in like 98. I lost the friend account so I switched to Ubuntu in like… 08 mainly because that’s what Digital Ocean offered in its prebuilt stacks, I didn’t really have an opinion. Switched to Linux on the desktop only last year, went with Mint since I’d gotten used to Ubuntu. I’m happy, don’t feel the need to do anything else really. I have a Steam Deck so obviously I’ve used SteamOS, not really a fan of the immutable thing.
Tbf, I believe CachyOS has taken the reigns of “Arch based gaming distro that doesn’t have immutable OS restrictions”, so that’d probably the easiest solution for that.
On the slackware note though, my uncle still uses it (I think it was Puppy last I checked). He was a former chip designer at IBM and Intel, and got on the linux for privacy bandwagon long enough ago to show me the ropes of linux as I was growing up.