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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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[–] Cotillion189@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my case, specifically Windows 95.

98 for me. One day, it borked the file system one last time. Never looked back. Have to use Win 10 at work, though, and I hate how cumbersome and slow it is

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Microsoft has been trying to make me hate computers since the 90s lol

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 9 points 1 year ago

In my case, specifically tiling windows. I use i3, btw.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. On the same hardware, Linux (Knoppix back then) worked much better than Windows (the 98/XP era).

[–] Opafi@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Same. More specifically windows 8.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I used a bootable Ubuntu usb to save the contents of my windows hard drive after it failed. I successfully brought the files onto an external drive and installed Linux after. It was so fun. It still is.