@tomxcd Somewhere in 2010/11 (7th grade/at 12/13 yo) I tried Ubuntu 9.04 together with a friend whose father was a programmer. Mostly to play Minecraft better :-D

We both moved from LTS to standard release, in '11 moved away because early Unity was crap. I then tried Mint, fedora (early GNOME 3 was shit as well), openSUSE, Kununtu, Mandrake(?), Backtrack, … . Ended up with fedora together with i3 in I think 2012/2013. At a maths camp met another guy who said I should try Arch (I was too intimidated to try myself, considered myself too much of a noob). Installed it, first installation worked fine but reinstalled a bunch because I wanted to tweak a lot, later understood enough to do the same changes w/o reinstalling. Submitted first package to AUR in '14 and learned *a lot*.

In '15 I went to university, and never really moved away. Just recently I'm giving Silverblue a shot (after some openSUSE Tumbleweed), let's see if I can make my move there. Regarding DEs I switched from i3 to sway and then in I think '19 to GNOME again as it's really good now™.