Hello lovely people, I’m new here and new to Garuda. I’m a 46 year old non-binary person from Nijmegen, Netherlands (pronouns: they/them). I’ve been using Linux off and on since the mid 1990s, starting out with Debian with the only X Window System that was available at the time, but moving over to Gnome when that came out. In that era, I’ve also dabbled a bit with Solaris, BSD en SuSE. In more recent years I’ve used a lot of Ubuntu (started when it was still described as “a Debian based distro”, before it grew into its own black hole that other distros orbit around) but I eventually grew dissatisfied with it and went looking around for something else. I’ve used Bunsenlabs Linux (a Debian based distribution) for a little while and then found Garuda Linux - the DR460NIZED edition of course - and decided to give it a go. I must say, I’m blown away by how easy it was to install, quite the opposite of what one would expect from an Arch based distribution, which is an incredible feat by the makers of Garuda!
So what do I do in my daily life under capitalism? I’m a desktop IT grunt at a multinational behemoth company, maintaining the laptops and mobile devices that my colleagues use, as well as the local network infrastructure at the offices in my jurisdiction. All Windows based, “obviously”. But I also do some volunteer IT related work for a small political party and for a group of queer activists, consisting mostly of some light development and maintenance of various tools running on Linux servers and some light web dev, which is a nice change from the corporate Windows environment.
Oh, and then I also do music. I own three saxophones (a soprano, a tenor and a baritone), a concert flute and a ukelele. I’ve played in bands ranging from ska to punk, but I’m currently between bands. In my highschool years, I played clarinet in what we call a harmonic orchestra (harmonie-orkest) in Dutch, to translate that to terms understood in the Anglosaxon realm, picture a hybrid of a symphonic wind orchestra and a marching band.
So, well, that’s me in a nutshell. Hi everyone! 
