I have been in the Linux meta since 2023. Here is my entire journal and experience.
2023
It was the year when Valve's Steam Deck became relevant to me, at least to my knowledge. At that time, Valve managed to turn around Linux Gaming by a complete 270 degrees. Games just worked. No aggressive tinkering, no nothing. It was the holy grail of Valve's Proton.
Unfortunately for me, the distribution I had my very first Linux experience with was... HoloISO. It was a very botched attempt to put together Valve's SteamOS onto Desktop devices, and the experience was nothing short of terrible.
Once I realised HoloISO was bust, I tried running back to my good ol' Windows. Unfortunately, I couldn't. Nothing worked, reflashing my boot drive never worked, because at that time I never understood filesystems the way I do now.
2024
This year was mostly relegated to trying Bash scripts on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), nothing too much.
I consistently had people telling me that Linux was getting better and better. But after the trauma of Filesystems that haunted me an year prior, I couldn't being myself to do that. Things were still relegated to WSL only.
2025: The Beginning of a Turn
Linux Gaming was advancing. I began to see a more aggressive push of Linux content on my feed. It wasn't until the tech boys of YouTube began pushing Linux steadily, and I was slowly starting to regain my faith into the system.
I still was in touch with WSL only, because that was the only way for me to run Bash scripts on Windows. But the more aggressive steps by Microsoft onto Windows 11- an OS I liked were becoming major. I resisted by using debloat scripts and AME Playbooks.
Late 2025, Windows 10 support dropped. Linux migration spiked. Something stuck into me and never left since.
2026: The Turn
This year is what the Internet deems as the "Year of Linux Desktop". And for good reason. Linux migration is at an all-time high (as of July 2026).
I did what any other person did. Showed my act of bravado and jumped into the waters of Linux once more. And I liked it. The bittersweetness of freedom. I did hop back and forth between Windows and Linux because I learnt what was wrong after I hopped back to Windows then I had to reset again.
However, one of my friends just asked me to stop my time-drainage that I was letting on by distro-hopping and asked me to stay put. And I did just that. Now I am settled onto Nobara Linux and all things that I want my computer to do work well. I still miss the plug-and-play capabilities on Windows.
CONCLUSION
Linux is fantastic, in the end. Now that I am 100% on Linux and relying on the Linux Terminal instead of WSL, with all the major changes and improvements over the workflow on Linux compared to Windows, I can safely say this was one of the best things I had ever done.
Sure, with a lot of hiccups on the way. NVIDIA Drivers not working properly, and some mild hiccups like a botched installation.
However, with every attempt I came back with new knowledge, and now, I am staying put. Learning this beautiful ecosystems where I am in charge.
Ah, the sweet taste of freedom.
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