MintSpider I have been using Linux since 2015.

The best part is that I have no regrets of ever switching to Linux.

    downhill I greatly apreciate any application suggestions. Thank you. Will give a try at pdf studio. Incscape I have tried but the learning curve has proven to be steep. Unfortunately it is also very slow. I do have high hopes for https://www.vgc.io/ though.

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      Three years approx. I used Mint as a kid but that's that

      It was summer of 2007. I'll never forget it. Computers and non-mainstream software always fascinated me, and somehow or another I developed a strong desire to explore worlds outside of my Windows bubble (which was enjoyable in the '90s, but was feeling a bit limited by '07). Did a little research, held my breath and installed Ubuntu. I was completely blown away by how functional and cool the world of free software was. The first time I experienced Compiz effects changed my life honestly, to see what a UI could do and what it could be to make computing more fun and beautiful and customizable. I haven't looked back since. It's still an incredible journey, and Solus has only made it a million times better since 2017.

        JohannPopper I don't know why you feel the need to use green font on a white forum post which puts the readability of your post at the very least to an eye straining headache level, but black font is the ideal and default and it's what everyone else uses. I understand the need to feel different or stand out, so feel free to go ham with your display picture, but the green font is just impossible to read man. I can't believe I'm font shaming...

            Scotty-Trees

            I struggled about halfway through the first sentence, skipped the rest. I have no idea what the message was about. Probably very few do.

              Short answer: first touched a linux system over 15 years ago.

              Long answer: I was a kid who would jump on my dad's work laptop which ran SuSE and play around with the operating system in middle school. I'm pretty sure the first time I booted in that I didn't even know there were other OS's besides Windows and Mac. I remember asking him a million questions about it and being fascinated that it was the driver of the huge supercomputers that he worked on. Had a lot of good times learning how to write simple Perl scripts with my dad back in those days.

              Fast forward to 2008 and I was really getting into computers, programming, and starting my CS degree. I had just received a brand new laptop and absolutely hated Windows. My older brother helped me to setup and install Ubuntu on my computer and that was that. Haven't touched Windows outside of a VM since (well, not totally. still know a lot of people who run Windows). I stayed on Ubuntu for quite a while before I began distro hopping like crazy. I have run Debian, Kubuntu, Mint, Kali, Arch, Manjaro, Backbox, Fedora, openSUSE, Zorin, MX and many others that I'm forgetting through the years.

              I'm happy to say that my days of distro hopping have been over since mid-2018. Right now, I have 3 machines that all run different flavors that work best for their use case:

              My work/dev machine is running Pop_OS 19.10 (it's a system76 Oryx Pro), my "home machine" runs Solus (and it's by far my favorite to use!), and my old laptop has been condemned to a testing/tweaking machine that I play around with for fun running Gentoo (fairly successfully, actually!) for a little over 2 years.

              It's been a crazy ride and I have always considered the larger linux community to be a bright spot in my life. I've been running Solus now for about a year and a half and love what I get from it. Some truly great engineering, design, and polish in this distro and I hope to enjoy it for many years to come!

              Scotty-Trees

              This is the default Solus forums look when I'm logged in.

              As you can see, it's black with white text by default. I find green easier to read on black, and it allows me to quickly scroll to my posts in long threads. It's only logical. However, since you apparently set your theme to white, I shall use the default font just for you from now on.

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                  JohannPopper I was about to say. "The green on black looks good to me. What am I missing?"

                      dug I was about to say. "The green on black looks good to me. What am I missing?"

                      The default black foreground on a dark-theme black background would be unreadable.

                        6 months later

                        I don't remember the date, but I DO remember a tall stack of openSUSE floppy disks that took forever to download over the phone line at 1200 bps.

                        And I remember paying a significant amount of money (in those days) for an official set of Red Hat disks that came with 90 days of support. As luck would have it, I ran into my first problem a little after those 90 days, and they refused to help unless I paid a lot more. I haven't looked at Red Hat since.

                        Started messing around with Linux back with Ubuntu 14, then took a break till Ubuntu 16 and only used that twice. Started back again last year and hopped through 8 distros before finding my forever distro in Solus Budgie.

                        I started experimenting with Linux around 2002. First install as a main OS was around 2013. From 2015 till now I use Linux on my personal computer.

                        2002 with Lindows (later called Linspire)

                        a year later

                        I tried Suse, Redhat and Mandrake early 2000s, didn't used them for more then a few days. Then I started using Kubuntu at the beginning when they sent you the CDs to your house. Use it for a while then move back to windows cause I used to play a lot back then. Then I was going back and forward between windows and ubuntu, then tried Manjaro 2 year ago and liked it then had to change back to windows because of some I program audio and video professional equipment that only worked on windows.
                        Then a year ago I decided to go back to Linux (chose Solus) and started using it almost full time (I even use Ps and Ai on Solus), even thou I have dual boot to use windows only for 2 or 3 games that don't work on Linux, some programming software that only works on windows and for Premier and After Effects, as they don't work on Linux and haven't been able to make Davinci Resolve work on Solus.

                        This is a really interesting thread. I started back with Ubuntu 16.04, but never really stuck with it. I decided to go full time with Linux in 2019 and been using Solus for almost that long.

                        I started using Linux in 2006-2007 because a friend's son set him up with Ubuntu. My friend wasn't technology-gifted (still isn't, for that matter), so I installed Ubuntu (6.06 if I remember right) on a spare computer and learned it so that I could help when he ran into trouble and called for help. I had a strong background in Unix, so it wasn't much of a conceptual jump to Linux. I have operated in parallel Windows/Linux universes since then. I discovered Solus with Release 3, but didn't adopt Solus Budgie as my primary Linux distro until Release 4 became available in 2019.

                        I don't know if I will ever abandon Windows entirely because I still support a lot of Windows computers and need to keep current, but I use Solus about 70% of the time now. The Win10 and Solus desktops sit next to each other and I move back and forth depending on what I'm doing. I use the same software core (LibreOffice, Gimp, Firefox, etc.) in both environments and have for years and years.