Stefano MarinelliSep 4, 2023

25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.

Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.

In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'

Please boost and share your experience!

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@stefano I discovered the linux world in '95 : barebones X11, sparse doc (no arch or gentoo wiki, didn't even know about the handbook), internet was young. Back then, dependency-aware packages manager didn't exist, at least on linux. IIRC, Debian changed that a few years later with apt, then Mandrake (ancestor of Mageia) developed urpmi, and now you couldn't imagine a distro without this feature.

I heard of Freebsd in 2006, but unfortunetly didn't had the opportunity to use it as much.

Sep 4, 2023 at 12:18pmWeb