Hi,
I’m David, 34, from Germany and have been using Linux for quite some time now. My first PC was a hand me down with an AMD K6, clocked at 200 MHz, Windows 98 (first Edition) and i think some kind of S3 ViRGE. The Family PC from ALDI in 2001 had a Pentium 4 and IIRC a GeForce 3 (and a 40 GB Matrox IDE Hard Drive, that died spectacularly in a ball of fire of me trying to hot plug it…miraculously nothing else got fried in that PC), that somehow found it’s way in to my AMD K6 machine.
After that i built my first PC…Athlon XP 2400+, Nvidia FX5200, i pretty much ran circles around my friends at LAN Partys we used to have back then. (Most of the time in my place, because we also were the first to have DSL 786…and a Flatrate at that!) Well…until they bought better GPUs than me, because i cheeped out on that. Various builds with Athlon 64s and Athlonx 64X2 followed…only to get stuck on FM2+ for a very long time - my Athlon X4 750K was probably the longest CPU i have used. Bought it in 2012 when it came out and stuck with it until i think late 2018 when i jumped on the ZEN Bandwagon. That Ryzen 5 1600 is now running one of my Homeservers.
I think around 2006 i started my first Linux adventures with SuSe 8.0 (i still have that book here), then came Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Xandros and many others. Around 2010/11 i installed my first Arch Linux from scratch and was mighty proud i did that, only to nuke it about a week later (i don’t remember exactly what i did, i think some kind of pacman -Rdd or a combination of pacman -Rsc and the former). In the endeavour to reinstall Arch i nuked my Windows install and learned the real hard way, why Backups are important.
After that i got a Laptop and have been running some kind of Linux on Laptops ever since (except for Work, sadly, I’m a Windows Infrastructure Manager with legacy applications that have me running Server 2003 in some cases… 
). Never really got the hang of programming, so i just “slithered” in as the Hardware Guy for pretty much anything. The occasional bash script or powershell script i can get together, but that’s sadly mostly it.
I never really bothered with Linux on my “PC” since then, because i mainly used it to Game. Being a huge Simulator Guy as well and Force Feedback support for Linux still being rather finicky it took until this year to actually try Linux again for Gaming.
And what can i say, Garuda is brilliant! Except btrfs, which still leaves me scratching my head sometimes, but that’s most certainly down to me and not btrfs itself 
So yeah, i’ll probably can’t help anyone in terms of scripting, programming or something, but if there’s a Hardware issue, i’ll try my best to help 
Have a good one and “Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!”
Welcome