Well, I’m done experimenting (stop laughing…) and so I’ll be switching over to OM full time as soon as I can reinstall. Which means I should probably introduce myself.
I left the engineering and tech world 20 years ago now (yeesh!) and somehow I keep getting pulled back in. And yes I am a “real” engineer (chemical).
I originally looked into linux years ago (several times actually - including back in the 90s) but it just didn’t do what I needed it to do. Everything I did was running though either a DOS or Windows system. OK, there were some non-Microsoft systems back in the late 80s & 90s. Heck I was even an MS Developer - I still have my copies of MSDN 
Regardless, in 2013 I needed to do something in a large document. After multiple tries and googles, I finally found that LibreOffice would do what MS Word would not - style hyperlinks. So I wrote the spec in Writer. 5 years later I realized I hadn’t opened ANY MS Office application in 5 years when I finally needed to open an old spreadsheet.
Soon after I stumbled on a “Switched to Linux” video and impressed with how far tux had come since I last looked at it I made the jump. Win 7 was dying and I hated Win 8 & 10.
I haven’t looked back.
Bounced around a bunch of distros but kept going back to Mint Cinnamon. Been there since 2019. Now I’m wanting to try KDE and starting to look around. Sure I could install it on Mint, but I’d rather not shoehorn things. Especially for my Daily Driver.
And then Lunduke happened. Never heard of Open Mandriva before. So I decided to check it out and experiment. Distro’s nice, forums are fun, I can do everything I need to. Heck the team’s small enough that maybe after 6 months or so I’ll play around as a maintainer or developer - unless I get so sick of KDE I bolt out (I only lasted 3 weeks with XFCE before I gave up on that).
So as I said above - I guess you’re stuck with me
