I was C in the Matrix room. I don’t know if that’s still up, I haven’t checked Matrix in a while.
I’ve run Linux Mint for 10 years on a laptop, which I primarily used for writing while sitting in bed. Windows was always my main because it was what I had and a lot of proprietary software you need has no easy equivalent. Last year I tried converting fully to Arch Lnux, but I fell off the face of Linux because Arch broke something on a -Syu. I got frustrated and went back to Windows.
Then I broke my foot and was laid up with nothing to do for 9 weeks.
I picked up Artix Linux and have been gradually migrating (and documenting) myself to it. And I hit the threshold where, unless I need to be in Windows for something specific, I prefer using the computer while on Linux. Rather than Cinnamon, I’m using Openbox as my daily, since it cooperates the most (that I’ve seen) with playing games in monitor-spanning, I’m still learning, and not everything works as it does on Windows (oi), so I’m not over the hurdle yet.
Most of my major workflow is already there, a lot of it is just a matter of converting Autohotkey to xdotool scripts or editing filepaths so my playlists from foobar can go into fooyin or my bookmarks from XNview can come cleanly to Linux. It’s just a lot of work, which is I think the bigger thing that drives people away from making the wholesale change from Windows to Linux.
The biggest hing I’ll need to sink Windows for me is a program identical to Paint Tool Sai with being able to make automation menus ala Autohotkey. And the trick of that is also choosing an X11 or Wayland environment to settle into and choosing the right automation tools there. For the short term, I’ll just run it through a virtual machine so I can keep drawing.