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The freedom is great, and the fact that things don't change out from under me is awesome
I can use a basic or tiling window manager while still running a modern system. Updating Windows or macOS = new "improved" GUI, generally speaking. KDE and Gnome also change, but it's your choice to use/not use them, as it should be!
Started with Red Hat in the kernel 2.0 or 2.2 days, because I picked up a book+install CD at a garage sale.
Slackware on an old laptop got me through undergrad (desktop ran Gentoo, but I didn't use it much).
Switched to Debian after that, with a little Arch in grad school btw (not a huge fan
to each their own).
Running Debian now (desktop, laptop, and SBCs), but my heart belongs to Slackware.
Slackware! The good old days with Pat :^) (Yeah, that smiley is (c) Patrick Volkerding)