I came to know Linux through a work relation of the wife. Her co-worker kept insisting I give Linux a try, due to a Microsoft update that disabled a cooling fan speed control on a Windows 8 rolled to Win 10 ACER Laptop. Customer support suggested I just replace it with a newer better laptop ....... ? I thought that is a dumb idea, you have proven you have no idea what you are doing because your updates broke this 1 ....... why the hell would I replace with something else from you since you can't figure out how to fix this 1. That began my search for something different or a fix for what I had.
I landed on forum after forum with way to many posters name calling over who could pee farther !
I thought but it is still just a pissing contest ? ? ? Right ?
Stumbled over here - - - -
@wizardfromoz stuck out more so then others. It made me change my mind about Linux and what "Linux intended purpose" which is different for everybody, and I get that.
Again the question was first touch ......... it was Linux MINT and I hated it.
Then I jumped over to try Ubuntu because after all it was top on Distro Watch I have yet to get Ubuntu to even fire up. I give up very fast on getting stuff to work.That is with any distro regardless of name, I look at like a light bulb in a room if I flip the switch and it don't come on I try a different bulb I don't try to learn how to build the bulb. Which then had me try about 10 differnt DE with 3 or 4 distros in a week.
That was Oct. thru Dec. 2018 still no working Linux still no distro that would fully install and actually boot up and run with the exception of Linux Mint Cinnamon , ........ BUT Mint would not see my mouse or keyboard plus the 1 game I play Mint would not run it. I kept looking and search ARCH -nope / Kali - nope / Manjaro - nope / MX - nope / Ubuntu - nope / Linux Lite - nope / Mint - nope / Peppermint - nope / Puppy - nope / Steam OS - nope / then I stumbled across a search which landed at some obscure forum related to gaming with Linux this guy was very insistent that to give this a try it comes preset with working Lutris and working W.I.N.E. right from install. He claimed install was so easy a blind monkey could get it right.
He mentioned Blind and Monkey well that's me right there ....I'll give it a try.
It was Solus right before they went 4 ...... he said get 3.9999 Budgie - - - you will love it.
What did I have to lose at this point I thought ? Heck I'll give it a swing.
Been Linux since Jan. 2019 so 6 months with Solus Budgie - he is right so easy a blind monkey can get it to work, because I did and it did. Seen my steelseries gaming board with mouse and sees the black widow gaming mouse also. OH and that Laptop has never had another issue after install Linux the fan(s) work as expected. And that game I wanted to run on linux fired right off without the need to adjust / tweak / command line anything file, code line, or script which was a bonus.
It was probably more then you expected ........ what can I say, I try to keep it below 500 words.