Very similar to my experience of distro-hopping. Even taking into account my inexperience with Linux in general, Ubuntu and Mint (which a lot of people raved about) never really stuck with me. I never actually felt comfortable with any of the distros until I came across one that had the KDE Plasma desktop. From that point on, if a distro didn’t offer Plasma as an option, I bypassed it. However, I actually liked MX Linux (and antiX just before that) and I liked it even more when KDE Plasma came with it. MX is still on one of my laptops but I can never seem to get around to updating it to the current release. That sort of ongoing obstacle, having to do a major reinstall every year or so, is what caused me to look to a rolling release. That led me to Manjaro and I very quickly found that my distro-hopping days were over.
Despite having decided that Manjaro was what I intended to use, it still took me quite a while to get past the inertia of using Windows 7. But I did eventually decide to go cold turkey and install Manjaro on all my computers, leaving Win7 as a dual boot on just one laptop. I found myself nearly a year later realizing I had not touched that laptop’s Win7 install even once. Not too long ago, @linux-aarhus posted something that began with “Switching OS is like getting a new car.” The full post is here –
Windows 11 Not playing nice with Manjaro dual booting - #3 by linux-aarhus
It was exactly the kick in the pants I wish I had gotten back then to get off Windows once and for all. His description is absolutely PERFECT!