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 "Hi i'm spiros and i haven't used windows since 1997" ;) After coming back home from school one day in 1996 i found that my mom had decided to pay _someone_ to reinstall my computer with windows 95 and a thing called drivespace that "increased the available space" by compressing all the data in the partition. As you can imagine this made everything slow af. I then spent one year typing things i had no idea about until i got linux, x11 and pppd working and have been happy ever since.
Sep 4, 2023 at 7:24pmWeb