I first tried Linux after the monstrosity that was Vista, about 2010 I think. Not sure why now, but my first install was Mepis. Gnome (Gnome 3 then?) worked well, but I couldn’t get KDE right on the Fujitsu laptop I had at the time. Reading up more and more, OpenSUSE came across as mature and a more enterprise oriented distro, so I switched (this would be 11.x or thereabouts I think), and absolutely everything worked, including KDE. Never looked back, and now we have two old Lenovo laptops, and an Entroware Triton each running Leap 15.4 (I’ll get around to upgrading to 15.5 soon), and a new Lenovo on which I’ve taken the ‘leap’ and installed Tumbleweed.
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