I tend to distro hop quite a bit but over the past year I keep finding myself gravitating back to Garuda. Jumped through a few distros recently, CachyOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (would have stayed on Tumbleweed but I was having pipewire problems that I couldn't figure out how to fix). And so, I jumped back to Garuda Gnome

Garuda gets the most press for the UI design but that isn't what keeps me coming back. I love the system tools, easy kernel management, preset snapper, the other tools.

Garuda and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed are only two that really give me everything I personally want out of the box.

For the longest time I resisted, but I snagged a 2 tb sabrent drive.

What did it for me is I needed a new thumbdrive, and instead of doing the smart thing and spending $30 for a random generic thumb drive, I instead decided that a small nvme enclosure would be a neat thing to have. So I've got the new drive coming from Amazon and a neat little enclosure coming from aliexpress https://aliexpress.us/item/3256805196761444.html To shove the original 512 deck drive into.

Also just got tired of the dance of "What do I need on the ssd for performance, and what will be fine on the SD card"