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[-] enbyecho@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Um. VAX cluster?

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Linux users should be included. After all they switched OS being they couldn't understand how image formatting works.

[-] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

I dunno, maybe it depends on the age. I grew up with a G3 PowerPC and system 9, and I did spend a little time with early OSX (panther). My schools had these terrible Athlon boxes that could barely run XP without blowing up, and as I was leaving high school they were trying to get them to run Vista. That gave me the early impression that Macs were just better, until I went to a vocational school with Ivy Bridge Dell laptops running Windows 7. A friend of mine convinced me to try Linux, and I was impressed with how much easier it was to set up for development, but I ultimately stuck with Windows hosts for gaming, and Linux VMs, then Docker, then WSL for development. I'm still trying to put in the work now for moving away from Windows entirely now that AI is here and gaming on Linux is better. I think maybe it might just come down to having the resources, because if I got to try all three with at least decent hardware, I would have made that journey a lot faster.

[-] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Too bad correlation does not imply causation.

[-] kittenzrulz123 4 points 10 months ago

I started with a iMac (MacOS X) before moving on to Windows (10) and then Linux at roughly 14

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

I too started with Linux at 14. I just got my first computer, an old laptop with Windows. It was too slow and I couldn't even figure out anything in settings. (Windows 10 and its Settings + reduced Control Panel).

I at first tried to find "Linux". I had little idea about it, but I thought Linux must be it, and these others were just modifications, so I kept trying to find "pure Linux". Eventually figured out the distributions thing and decided on Mint (MATE).
I dug through all old movies just to find a rarity. One single movie burned to DVD-RW, perfect! (First computer, why would I have a USB drive?)

In the end I was using Windows for whopping 2 days.

And since I finally had a proper computer, it only took a few months and my phone was running a custom ROM (PixelExperience).

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[-] solberg 3 points 10 months ago

Seems like one of those bell curve memes with macOS on the left and right and windows in the center

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Clowns to the left of me

Jokers to the right

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Grew up on Mac (Chuck Yeager game anyone?).

DOS & Win3.1 later. QBasic for first language. Later VB, ew.

Linux sporadically throughout.

Use Linux largely for side projects but unfortunately all my jobs have me stuck on Windows during the day.

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[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe I am autistic after all.

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