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30s software engineer / linux user here.
We are exactly who you want as the "primer" user group. We will collectively make sure the whole thing works before the load really rams up.
We're the generation that learned to troubleshoot bc we had to. If we wanted to play that shiny new game or app, we had to actually get it running first.
I think about this a lot. I'm so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.
TBH, I actually thought he was talking about autoexec.bat and EMS memory, etc, rather than windows. I guess I'm slightly older? Maybe not. I'm also thinking windows registry thing hasn't really gone away. Yet.
I never used bare DOS, my first experience with a PC was on windows 3.1
My first experience with a pc was Windows 3 also! My parents business computers. I remember playing Jazz Jackrabbit and skifree on it. I was very young. I did get to use bare DOS tho from a hand-me-down computer that only booted into DOS. I'm not afraid of a little Console/Terminal work. I actually prefer it for some tasks. Like Arch's pacman is SO fast.