I took the dark path when Vista became thing. With zero technical knowledge, I turned to Linux, with no regrets.

My entry way was SUSE, which was a shock, with KDE and a radically user experience from WinXP, my former daily driver for many, many years; I was an unashamed fanboy.

My next and final distro was Debian, when Debian was everything but user friendly. But Debian gave me a sense of control over my computer, which Vista had very proudly took away, while gobling away resources from a not so powerful machine.

That computer stayed home for about eight years, when it died, beyond any viable repair.

Debian stayed, although I admit I've been using Mint lately, mainly to accomodate for playing GOG games with the least stress.

But I'm a Debian person, no doubt about.

And I am the kind of person that spins his laptop at someone sporting a Debian-based distro and utters "I am your father."