Another linux user cheking in
It started about 10 years ago with red hat 6.3 iirc, very basic graphical installer and lots of things needed to be installed with commands. Didnt have much time for it and game or even 3d support was non-existend so i didnt use it much but it did got my interests poked. A few years ago i decided to try it again, with suse 11.3 this time. having a ati radeon card i was semi-screwed since fglrx didnt work half decent with ati cards at the time. X kept crashing after driver changes etc, apart from a horrid experience with 3d support i still used for simpler/casual things because its just felt nice; Stable, fast, and very easy to work with after getting used to it, mainly prefered gnome at the time.
This time im in for good
I thought i install w7 on my pc, xp was on it for 3+ years and it got slooooooooow. Windows 7 lasted for an hour i think, got 1 crash and was cursing and whatnot at it because mr gates decided to put everything somewhere else or just completely remove menu's. I downloaded linux and kinda rage-quit windows
Since i was comfortable with suse i thought to start there, downloaded suse 12.4 live and put it on a flashdrive(no dvd at hand). Too bad it seems suse live doesnt boot from usb...
Now running mint 14 kde for now, just installed and customized it a bit. I used to prefer gnome but the brief time i tried cinnamon and mate didnt really do it and cinnamon acted a bit weird with the legacy ati drivers. Prolly gonna try the gnome versions later on. But i was gaming a fair bit an used it less and less.
Im still trying to decide what im gonna try next and eventually settle for, Mageia seems promising and suse netinstall is supposed to work from flashdrive.
some shots of my DE