(RedHat[Office Max] -> Yellow Dog -> Gentoo -> Arch).

Moved from Gentoo to Arch because I was tired of compiling system updates. Was fun compiling when tweaking the kernel and compiler settings trying to maximize Doom 3 on Linux. Enemy Territory didn't need any tweaking.

I don't mind new or more distros. Helps learn new ways of doing things to make Linux more presentable to others. Tools still needs to be presentable to the masses.

Hehe, I forgot to put Gentoo in there haha, for me Arch also felt like binary (and thus much faster to install!) Gentoo!

I love new distro's, especially paradigm shifting ones. Ubuntu at the time ("It just works"), Gentoo ("squeeze max performance out of my hardware and know it thoroughly") Arch ("So fresh, unmatched package availability through AUR"), NixOS ("My OS lives in Git, and that is where it is supposed to be") and the new Fedora silverblue/bootc stuff ("Get some of those cloud paradigms on my personal devices"). Although I haven't played with the latter, mostly because the advantages are NixOS like, and NixOS does it well, and I'm not done learning by a long shot, but it deserves some checking out, it's certainly a new paradigm.