it's been a year of linux.

and i have hopped from multiple distros. kubuntu 20.04, manjaro-kde, manjaro-gnome, fedora 36, fedora 37 plasma spin, and now debian (actually spirallinux, but it's just an 'alternate debian live installer' as the dev writes).

my favorite was definitely kubuntu. it worked, as a first distro. i loved it, and my memories of it is me messing around with the plasma settings, struggling with kde discover and you know, newbie linux user stuff.

i honestly can't remember why i hopped off of kubuntu. maybe it was because the 22.04 update got delayed.

then manjaro. both kde and gnome. manjaro was odd. there was updated software. but everything was messed up. the customized desktops broke a lot of functionality, really. both kde and gnome.

then to fedora. there really was nothing wrong with fedora, but i didn't want to use gnome anymore because of broken theming. but fedora's kde spin. that was a hot mess. it was slow, nothing worked properly, and the installer was pure garbage. some people are probably going to yell at me now, but trust me, it wasn't pleasant.

and here i am on debian. it's actually spirallinux, but as the dev says, it's just a better out of the box experience for debian. all it does is add some quality-of-life changes, and when you install, it's just debian 11. it uses debian's own repos and stuff, which you know you could rely on. just installed it last night, right after seeing fedora kde (it wasn't nice). i switched to the testing repo, so debian 12 much. so far so good, nothing messed up as far as i can see because, well, debian.

would debian be that OS that works, i wonder? people say that fedora is an OS that just works, and yes that is true. with the gnome version, apparently. i maybe did something wrong, but still, it didn't work for me. so imma run with debian, and i'll see how it goes.