Mandrake 9 around 2004

Gentoo because it can do it all

are all those 80mm fans? that must be loud

I switched my mothers Laptop to Gentoo with KDE some time ago and she did not even notice, because I placed the firefox icon at the same location it was in windows … 😜 she noticed only that the wallpaper is different

until the moment you realize that somehow you are not on your native keyboard layout and where the hell is : and ! in this weird language??!

The choice of desktop environment is much more relevant for users than those coreutils. KDE/Linux it is

Ctrl + R is bash history search

Kscreenlocker because it came as default and I made it look identical to sddm