Major milestones in my Linux journey. Writing this down for my own amusement, perhaps someone else will find it interesting as well.
1999 - started using Linux
Distro: RedHat 6.1 "Cartman" Desktop: GNOME 1 Shell: BASH
2000 - started using WindowMaker
Distro: RedHat 7.0 "Guinness" Desktop: WindowMaker Shell: BASH
2001 - started using Debian
Distro: Debian 2.2 "Potato" Desktop: WindowMaker Shell: BASH
Screenshot of my WindowMaker desktop running Emacs and Aterm on top WindowMaker. The app in the upper right hand corner is a wee3D app I wrote in university using C, OpenAL and OpenGL.
2003 - started using fluxbox
Distro: Debian Desktop: fluxbox Shell: BASH
2014 - started using Arch
Distro: Arch Desktop: fluxbox Shell: BASH
2015 - back to Debian
Distro: Debian Desktop: fluxbox Shell: BASH
2018 - started using i3
Distro: Debian Desktop: i3 Shell: BASH
2019 - starting using ZSH
Distro: Debian Desktop: i3 Shell: ZSH
After 20 years of using BASH, I switched to ZSH. The feature that won me over was the auto suggestion/completion overlay as it drastically speeds up the typing of long commands.
