My journey to using Arch Linux took a round about path: Windows, MacOS, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and finally … Arch.

I have not used Windows as my primary Operating System for many years (since around 2003). Sure, I’ve had to run Windows on a work laptop here and there, but for anything personal, I’ve been non-Windows. I used a Mac for a while and as a Unix-based OS, MacOS is pretty nice. Not exactly what I like, but I much prefer it to Windows.

I went a few years without a computer at my desk at home. I lived off a laptop and never sat at my desk with a proper keyboard, mouse, and monitor setup. But as I started working from home more, I wanted a nice, comfortable setup in our office, so I started looking for a computer for my desk.

I settled on a huge, powerful gaming laptop: an MSI GT76 Titan DT