I have worked with and tinkered with computers all my life from my first computer (A TI 99/4A) I primarily used DOS, then Windows 3.xx, on to OS/2, Windows NT and Mac OS and was setting up Novell Netware networks.

My first playing around with Linux was in the early 90’s with red hat and mandrake Linux. It was always fun to play around with but really back then there just wasn’t that many apps or choices of what to use so it was always mostly a fun “project/experiment” to play with for awhile until I had to get back to getting real work done. I played with Linux off and on over the years and it became more and more mature and got more and more application support but was never able to really use it as a daily driver or at least I was never motivated enough to leave the world of windows gaming on my desktop and I primarily used apple MacBooks for laptops although I had a ThinkPad with windows on it.

So we enter 2016 and Windows 10 is being crammed down everyone’s throat and I had finally had enough of Windows. At the time Ubuntu had just released their LTS version 16.04 and so that was what I decided to move to after doing some research. I used that for a few years until I had made it completely unstable lol.

So around early 2018 I decided I wanted the more up to date drivers and software available on Arch but I just didn’t have the time to deal with the perceived time I was going to have to spend tinkering with my system to keep it running. So I decided the Manjaro project was perfect for me as it was using “Arch” as it’s base and then just running those packages through a quality control system to create release branches (“unstable” being the fresh off the arch repo then moving to Testing and finally ending up the the “Stable” branch fully tested and ready to go.)

That leads me here. I’m an Intel processor / Nvidia GPU person which is why I really like all the optimizations and to be honest the use of the latest nvidia open drivers was a huge deciding factor for me to land here. I was with Manjaro for the past 6, almost 7 years but I hope to make this my “final distro” to land on.