How long have you been using Linux?

I don't quite remember when it was but I do remember loading about 6 cds of Mandrake.

January of 2018, i started with 18.3 Mint, after 24 reinstalls of windoze, that were ripped apart.

Switched full time almost 7 years ago. However, I started dabbling with Linux back in 1994.

Depends on how you define "use", I suppose. I've dabbled in Linux fir the past 12 years, but Windows is still my main OS because of gaming. Which also means my Linux knowledge is still minimal.

Haven't booted up windows for around 6 months now, so i guess 6 months of solely linux - but i've interested in it for like a couple of years

Bouquins Ubuntu rekindled my interest in Linux.

It all started with installing GIMP on xp, and finding open-source to be a viable alternative. When Win 7 was coming out took the leap to Ubuntu 9.10, all the way to 16.04. I never game play so the jump was not that drastic.
2 years ago this month moved to Solus and never looked back.

I've used Linux since 0.95 in some capacity, and Unix prior to then. Had a professor turn me on to Linux while taking some Unix sys admin courses in '92. I am finally windows free, now that I have converted my gaming rig to Solus.

Drewfus Just because I have used it since then, doesn't make me a wizard or anything. I have gone back and forth using versions of it for 20 years, and am adept with it. One correction though, I still have 1 windoze box, a 386dx that I still boot up from time to just keep myself connected to those good old days.

Drewfus The faded cotton bond paper that bleeds through both sides during stacking of the printouts and the density of the ink make me smile. Courier font brings me back to my comfort zone. We are all dating ourselves in this thread...

Summer of 2004, ₁₅ years.

Hey, it occurred to me Drewfus that we can simulate the BBS and zmodem days. Do package installations from the repository on Sunday (determined some local maintenance causes massive slowdown), it took me more than an hour to download 51 megs.

In 1996 I tried Dragon linux which installed onto a DOS partition of a 486. The thrill of that first X11 bootup, weird gray background and funky X looking mouse pointer... and zero dollars. I learned some shell commands... and 20 years later i am still using those same shell commands. Bash awk grep sed find locate nano curl wget telnet/ssh . And in another 20 i will still be using them god willing.

Nano didn't come about till the Pine project (it's editor) as I recall. Was that available in 1996? Oh god, I looked it up, it was in 1989. I feel so old. I well remember mail before that..and I thought pine (and it's editor) was super slick back in the day.

I've been low-key following Linux communities since I was a kid in primary school(so about 9-10 years), and tried out random distros(Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Zorin OS) at various times throughout the years. I think the longest I had previously committed to a Linux distro was about a month before I switched back to Windows, because I was very much reliant on Windows software back then.

I've only switched full-time to Linux a couple months ago, because I realised that there's actually no software that I'll miss from Windows at this point. I still have Windows 10 on my gaming PC, but a surprising amount of my games library (of around 1000 games) works on Linux now. I also don't play games much anymore anyway. When I switched to Solus a couple months ago, I was surprised to see that I genuinely couldn't think of any software that I'll miss from Windows anymore for my main workstation. The only thing I almost missed was Microsoft Office, but then I started learning to use LaTeX and now have a love for it.

Now I honestly don't think I could ever go back to Windows. Solus is beautiful and it's stable. I also find that as a software engineering student, my workflow has improved considerably since making the switch. I do pretty much all my work in the terminal now, and I love doing so.

I still think there's some work to do on making Linux distros a little more accessible to people who aren't developers, but since I'm currently learning to become a developer myself; hopefully I can help contribute to that work in the coming years .

I am pretty new to the game but I am happy that I jumped on the train at the right time. I started out trying Ubuntu on my old laptop back in 2016. Had it installed and used it from time to time and started to learn some stuff. Never really got in to the habit since I really didn't like Unity. I kept using my Mac and still doing some stuff on the Linux laptop from time to time.

Then around 2017 I started getting involved in a lot of privacy stuff and started collaborating with Brave browser a bit. They got me on the right track and I started distro-hopping a lot. Loved Manjaro KDE but couldn't use it because it was too slow to start, sat with Ubuntu Budgie a while until I settled with Solus about one year ago now. I love Solus and it would be awfully hard for me to switch away.

Hello Fellow Fedora Community members,
I am Alex a.k.a. Ari, I left the MS Windosw world about 11 years ago first for mac for 1 year and about 10 years ago moved to the Linux World, from the start GNOME was familiar since I was Mac user.
For my Personal PC I have used a lot of Linux Distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubutnu, Ubuntu Mate, Pepermint, Linux Mint. Gentoo, Arch, Antegros, Manjaro and last PopOS.
When I get the time and test out all the best game Fedora setups will move 100% to Fedora for my game and entertainment PC (using mostly steam/proton and Netflix, HBO, HULU, and Jellyfin).

Scientific Linux / CentOS Fedora Labs and Fedora Workstation have been my work PC for the last about 5 years and I am happy with it, GNOME is perfect with keyboard shortcuts no need for a mouse, and getting better over the years along with Fedora, yum was and is great dnf is also great.

I always have to PCs for work one with stable CentOS or previously Scientific Linux and the experimental one on Fedora RC or Fedora stable, but recently for the last month I have switched it I use Fedora 30/31 as primary OS + most of Fedora Labs software (my own mix edit app list).
and as test PC I tried to use Fedora Silverblue and it works wonderful, since at most I need browser for all my work web services and terminal for testing and writing code (MCEDIT).

I tried Solus and Budgie is wonderful DE especially the Raven, wonderful work. I have being using it since Fedora 30, now on Fedora 31. keep up the great work with Budgie Desktop I hope I can contribute later on.

Live Long and Prosper :vulcan_salute:
Ari.