For me it was:
Windows (for many years) -> Ubuntu (for a year) -> Arch Linux (for half a year) -> Void Linux (literally 2 days) -> Artix Linux with runit (a month) -> Gentoo Linux (another month) -> Debian (finally, I don’t plan on changing it).
Also, when trying to switch from Gentoo to Debian, I fucked up all my data with no backup.
What was your journey?
EDIT: Added Windows
Windows 2000
Windows Vista Windows 8
Trying every Linux distro under the sun for a little while in VirtualBox
Linux Mint + Windows 8 later 10 dual boot due to software required by school
Trying some Arch based systems in VirtualBox
My owm minimal Arch i3 setup + Windows 10 dual boot due to software required by school
Issues with my own setup, Manjaro + W10
Manjaro is weird, EndeavourOS + W10 (only for a short while)
Linux Mint just works (+W10, until I could fully use my own software, now it’s just Mint for several years)
I’m tinkering around with NixOS in QEMU from time to time, not everything “just works” but it’s okay
Windows for until 8 => various Ubuntu Flavours for a while => Manjaro for a couple Weeks maybe => Arch for 5+ Yeats => fedora since maybe 2 months
kubuntu 2 years windows 10 2 years Ubuntu 1 month kubuntu 2 years fedora 2 years everything for about a month fedora for a year arch since february
I started with an ancient redhat, moved to Linux From Scratches, landed in Gentoo 25+ years ago and never hopped anywere else since…
Windows 95
Suse Linux
Yoper Linux
Windows XP
Slackware
Windows 10/11
Fedora Linux
“Relapsed” to Windows for a while because I became a graphic designer and running a somewhat current Adobe suite on wine was impossible (it works now).
Slackware has been amazing, but having to built so much stuff from scratch takes too much time nowadays.
And those first Suse years were too rough to keep using it as a daily driver.
