It is my Linux Mint 9-year anniversary

[BenTrabetere]

I seems like yesterday when I moved from WinXP to Mint 17.0. I started with MATE and stuck with it through 18.3, switched to Cinnamon with 19.0, and switched to Xfce when 19.x hit EoL. I was apprehensive at first, but all it takes is booting to my Win7 and Win10 virtual machines to reinforce all the reasons I cannot go back - Windows Update is at the top of the list.

[Pjotr]

Congratulations!

I also moved from Windows XP to Linux. Just a bit earlier than you, and not (yet) to Mint: in 2006, to Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake....

But it was also in July, on a hot summer evening. The beginning of a new adventure, that's still ongoing. Never once regretted it.

[spamegg]

Congrats!

For me, soon it will be my 4th (2019-2023), although I used Ubuntu for a year in Virtualbox in Windows before that. I think I tried Mandrake in 2003 for a few months.

Used Windows 1999-2019, and Mac OS 2006-2015.

Mint rules! Tried everything else, came back and stuck with it.

[all41]

Congrats to BenTrabetere and others who made the commitment,

Looking back the Linux transition was not as difficult as it seemed at the time.
I dabbled around with a few other distros for a couple years--then Julia caught my attention--
but Maya was the release that started the weening process.
I was using it more often and heavier at this point and I decided to be Linux only.

So10ish years later I still dabble around and find some interesting projects, but all said,
I'm like so many other dabblers who continue coming back to Mint as a main goto.

[rickNS]

Yeah Congrats Ben !

Over 12 years for me using Mint as daily driver.
Have never strayed from Mint, but have got through a couple of Arch installs, and not the new easy way either.
And always have a bunch of virtual machines, including more of Mint, you know for "crash test dummy" testing.