@tomxcd My first Linux install dates back to around the time when I started coding C, which was around 2011 (age ~13). By 2012 my main desktop was Linux. My laptop was setup again and again in something like a bi-weekly rhythm from 2011 to 2013, be it the initial distro hopping (took about a month until I settled on Gentoo), me breaking things and needing a new setup, or just experimenting with the install in general.
Ever since however I stayed with Gentoo on desktop. My servers (first one in 2013 IIRC) did also run Gentoo until earlier this year when I moved some stuff to NixOS.