Haha nice! Similar journey! My step 3 was when Win10 kept BSODing my games, and then being more subtly broken when I booted it up.

“Okay, I’ll just ‘refresh this PC’.” I said.

“Can’t.” Said Win10.

“Why not?” Says I.

“Lol-idk” says Win10 with an indifferent shrug.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed runs all my creative artwork tasks AND all my games run beautifully. Just pointed Steam to the folder and it handled everything automagically.

Game doesn’t crash anymore on the same hardware, BTW.

Tumbleweed my beloved. ❤️

My steps:

1. Think about dual-booting
2. Try to install Nobara as dual-boot
3. Fuck up Windows install
4. Too lazy to reinstall Windows 5.???
5. Now own Steam Deck, have old ThinkPad and PC running Fedora

Not dissimilar - my three steps.

1. Ran away from vista.
2. Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
3. Dual boot for years (you never know when you will need to wake up the windows for some random task), until Win 11 and recall…