I had one up until about 2003 probably. We were out in the country and couldn’t get cable or dsl. I remember trying out linux and fighting with the wintel modem and gpu drivers, writing down the errors, rebooting the machine back into windows, going online and researching the errors online, writing down the commands I needed to use to fix it, or downloading the rpm packages (fedora) I might have needed, rebooting, trying again in linux, failing, etc.

When i finally trees ubuntu on my laptop around 2007, it was amazing that the WiFi and graphics “just worked”.