I guess I will start. People beat me to it.

The year is 2015 and the GPU drivers for my laptop decided to stop working out of nowhere. No matter how much I screwed with it I couldn’t get them working. So even if my only experience with Linux at that point was a little bit of screwing around in VMs I decided to install Mint. Guess what? Drivers worked! (AMD ones then actually stopped working as well somewhere around 2018? Third party ones still work to this day). Man gaming back then on Linux was rough, but hey, my laptop worked so I didn’t care and my desktop was still running Windows 7 anyways.

Then in 2019 I build my fancy new PC, get everything set up, installed Windows 7 … USB ports don’t work, no drivers exist for them for Windows 7 at all…shit… There was no chance I was going to install Windows 10 on it so since Linux served me well for 4 years on my laptop I decided to just screw it and install Mint there too. Mint turned into Manjaro (and recently Arch on laptop), Proton became a thing and all is good in life and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way.

I did eventually install a LTSC version of Windows 10 on a separate SSD that I keep around for emergencies that gets booted into on average every 3-6 months.