I tried getting RedHat working for days in 98, then got a Linux magazine with a Suse CD that got me to the twm window manager :-)

Man that was a kick haha!

Then later I used the VMware beta in around 2000 to finally get my productive stack of Pagemaker and Photoshop on Windows into a VM, so that I could simply roll it back every time it failed, which was after a couple of hours max of work hahaha

Never looked back, although these days I sometimes boot the degen, genocidal slime that Windows has always been in QubesOS for subversive purposes only ;-)