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 In the early 90s I used DOS on a 286, and kept trying Windows 3.x. At first I liked it, as it was a glimpse into the future... A vaguely useable technical demo of what the future might bring...
Until I saw OS/2. It was everything I thought Windows might be one day. I upgraded to a 486 and switched to OS/2 full time. Never looked back.
(Since switching to Linux I keep looking back to OS/2, though, as no desktop ever caught up with the Workplace Shell.)
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