Hello, my name is Jonny.
I grew up in Norway, my family’s first computer was a 486 Olivetti running DOS with Windows 3.11.
In my teens I got my first own computer, a Pentium2 233 Mhz with an ATI APG “gaming” card. It shipped with Windows 98, but I quickly started testing out Red Hat and SuSE. Switching between dual-booting and re-installing Windows monthly. The PC was moved probably bi-weekly to to different LAN-parties, either largish ones or at friends houses for weekends.
Kept upgrading the PC with Matrox G400 card and later a Pentium3, playing around with Windows, Mandrake, Gentoo and new computers. Learned to code Visual Basic and Delphi, but never got hang of coding for Linux.
During my software engineering studies around 2006-ish I made a permanent switch from Windows 2000 (or XP) to Linux, also testing OpenBSD, but mostly stayed on Ubuntu. Learned to code Java and finally got to run my own software on Linux. Switched to Fedora Linux around 2013-ish due to customers servers running RHEL and CentOS at a software company I joined.
In 2015 I joined Fedora Linux as a package maintainer and still maintain packages and use Fedora for all production systems. The last year I have been looking for alternatives, but not fund anything worth changing to, tested out Alpine Linux and visiting OpenBSD again, but they did not stick with me.
Lundukes two videos made me rediscover OpenMandriva, the software stack is very close to Fedora, with several of packages I made for Fedora have already being copied over by OpenMandriva package maintainers.
For time being I would like to maintain packages in both Fedora and OpenMandriva and see how it goes before making a permanent switch.