The first #linux distro I used was #slackware, back in 1997, with a 2.0 kernel. I briefly tried #redhat but disliked its windows 95 aspect.
At that time I often had to compile software (or try to), there was always a missing library, or a version mismatch, or a different compiler / glibc version needed, and so on.
I've used Window Maker (based on the nextstep look) for a long time, until I had to use the windows installation provided by the company. I don't remember why I stopped using Linux at home.
In 2017 I tried several distros, #ubuntu, #elementaryos, used #debian for a while, often had drivers issues. Last year I installed #arch on a "old" laptop that could not receive #windows11, and I was very surprised to have no driver issue at all (except one thing : I've stopped trying to make the hybrid nvidia card working).
I also have a M1 mac mini (16g), a very pleasant machine, but I find #macos a little bloated, the ram used when you've just started the machine is a little high for my taste.
A thing I like in the macos UI is the top menu, reminding me the #amiga workbench. I hate each window having its own menu (and I hate the buttons being on the right side of the window), happily in #gnome that's easy to modify.
For hacking (in its original sense), nothing better than linux though.
That's all for now, I wanted to share a little bit of some of my computer history 
thanks for reading.
