For me it was 2010, I was at university and my Inatentive ADD would find Linux a great procrastination tool. I was already into "ricing" my windows desktop with .dll and other shell hacks, rainmeter was also in heavy use back then. Although it wasn't called ricing, those were the days of DeviantArt and, my favourite, PixelFuckers (RIP).

The first distro was, of course: Ubuntu.

Feel free to peruse my old DeviantArt Gallery to see my progression from Ubuntu to Arch and my somewhat embarrasing dabbling in BackTrack (Kali, before it was cool).

I had a long hiatus from Linux after I finished uni and got on with my life. But when I got back into Linux around 2018-2019 I started back with Pop!_OS as it was the cool new distro at the time. I steadily moved from Pop onto Void Linux (Glibc) which has been my daily (linux) driver ever since. Partway through the pandemic in 2020 I acquired an x230 ThinkPad with the goal to install NetBSD. I have been using NetBSD alongside Void as my two personal daily OS's ever since.

In the past year I've also acquired an extra SSD for my desktop which now runs 9front. I've also got another scrap bin laptop find which I started using Tribblix on but, while that OS is cool as fuck, it's not built for single user systems on a machine that requires a wifi connection. I now run Alpine on it and I love Alpine so much I'm considering installing it on my Void machine. But then again, it's always good to have options.