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When did you jump into Linux? (piefed.ca)
submitted 3 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/ask@piefed.social
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For me it was 2018.

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[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

1998. Redhat 5.2, IIRC.

My parents had made our computer dual boot, and I was so annoyed at what Microsoft was doing with Internet Exploder and Excel that I decided to use Linux anytime I was not specifically playing computer games.